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Looking for Compaq Armada 7770 Floppy Drive

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BGoins12

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Hey guys... I am in search of a floppy drive for my Armada. The part number for the drive is 220808-002. I found a few online, but all of them suffer from OPD (Overpriced Disease). Note that this is a removable drive that goes in the drive bay.

If you have what I am looking for, drop me a PM with a price.

Thanks!
 
The reason they are overpriced is that those damn caddies have unique shapes and connectors, not even consistent between quite close models.

If you don't like the price and you are up to a modest technical challenge, try taking apart the caddy of a non-working FDD (I'm guessing you are needing to replace one) and check whether there is a reasonably standard half-height drive inside it that you can replace and still use the old caddy. There is a good chance you will find a standard FDD and power connector somewhere in there.
 
RickNel said:
The reason they are overpriced is that those damn caddies have unique shapes and connectors, not even consistent between quite close models.

If you don't like the price and you are up to a modest technical challenge, try taking apart the caddy of a non-working FDD (I'm guessing you are needing to replace one) and check whether there is a reasonably standard half-height drive inside it that you can replace and still use the old caddy. There is a good chance you will find a standard FDD and power connector somewhere in there.
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I wish I had an old one. To me it looks like a slimline floppy drive with just a plastic piece on it to slide into the bay. I don't even think there is an adapter to convert the drive, it's direct connected.
 
Well, the basic FDD unit will have a 34-pin IDE connector (two rows of male pins) on it somewhere, but in my experience the Compaq drives always have an adapter that converts this to a different plug that has blades on two sides of a central ridge. This goes into a matching rectangular socket in the bay, that has contacts on the inside of its long sides. If you peer into the drive bay with a flashlight you can determine that.

One reason for that is that the "multibay" sockets need to be able to receive a CD-ROM drive, which has a quite different 50-pin connector based on the ATAPI standard and pin assignment. So Compaq's adapter has to make the two different interfaces compatible with a single socket. If keen or desperate, you might be able to find the pinouts for the connector online somewhere.

Your problem is that there are different incompatible sizes and types of those sockets, so you may find that you have no option but to buy from somebody who has taken the trouble to source, stock, identify and advertise drives that match your requirement.

Rick
 
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