Trying to Use Floppy Ribbon for GPIO

sabloomer

I am at the point in my build that I want to try to configure my buttons. I took apart an old floppy cable and removed the first handful of cables to get down to a 26 wire ribbon. I decided to take it an extra step and remove the wire for pins 1 through 4 so I didn't accidently use the powered pins. I also peeled back the cable for pins 8 &10 (14 &15). I then connected the ends to some 22 gage wire and then to the switches, with the ground daisy-chained. When I start the Pi it now runs to "[sda] Attached SCSI disk" and hangs. Any ideas any one?

mholgatem

I'm not sure, I used a bunch of jumper wires for my build and never ran into that error. If you disconnect the floppy cable do you still get the error on reboot? If not, then I would try disconnecting half of the wires and testing your boot up.

Also, do you have an external drive connected to your pi?

sabloomer

Thank you for the response. The issue was between the ears, I didn't have it wired correctly and I didn't have the software configured correctly. I took it apart and re-assembled it, and now it works. (Hate id10t errors)

Yes, I have my roms stored on a USB drive

mholgatem

Glad you got it working!

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