*** Jasen Betts wrote in a message to AMARDEEP JUNEJA:
JB> it plugs into the flat cable that goes to your other floppy
JB> drive, (there should be 4 connectors on tha cable (2 sets of
JB> 2) plug it in the one that fits it that's furthest from the
JB> one connected to your existing floppy. Don't worry if you
JB> get the connector backwards you won't damage anything,
JB> you'll just have to turn it round to make it work.
Excuse me if I sound rude, but you apparently haven't done this very much. If 
you leave the cable hooked up the wrong way for too long, you *WILL* fry 
either the floppy drive or the controller (and sometimes "too long" is only a 
split second).  And if the controller is built into the motherboard, you'll 
have to hope that the port can still be disabled in the BIOS so that you can 
put in an I/O card... and I/O cards are getting hard to find nowadays.  As 
for the cable, the ones that you buy in the store look as you describe, but 
cables that are in prebuilt systems often have only the connectors needed.
In any event, it's difficult to plug a data cable into a 5.25" drive 
backwards anyway, since the connector is usually keyed.  It's the 3.5" drives 
that are often easy to plug stuff in backwards or offset by a row of pins.
JB> There will be a cable with a (translucent white) plug and 4
JB> wires 1 red 2 black 1 yellow comin from the power suply (tin
JB> box with fan) that goes in the socket on the back of the
JB> disk drive.
On some older Tandy computers, the drive gets power from the data cable. 
Replacing the special Tandy drives with a standard one will often fry the 
drive, since it's getting power on the data cable that it isn't designed for
JB> If your computer is new-ish it'll know what to do when you
JB> swuitch it on, otherwise you'll have to run the setup
JB> program.
On some, the changes are made automatically, but you have to run SETUP to 
save them.  IBM's are an example of this.
--Scott.
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