Cannibalizing a floppy cable

[coldfish]

All floppy cables Ive seen are just open circuits when nothing is plugged in, so removing part of the end of the cable makes no difference.  
Just chop off the superfluous part, so that you end up with the mobo connector and the first floppy connector.  I cant remember if this will make the drive act as floppy B, but it doesnt matter if it does, because you can usually swap that in the bios.

 

[coldfish]

Ive tried it with IDE and it works fine, especially on lower bandwidth devices like CDROM drives, infact I have a few single connector IDE cables out of an old Compaq desktop.

Ive even built a 1.5m long IDE cable for an arcade cabinet and it worked ok eventhough it defies the recommended standards, again low bandwidth, (I doubt it would work with a fast HD?)

SCSI is another story... ;-)