Well since I've had my STe back I've done some tinkering, got my gotek working. The external keyboard mod was done about 22 years ago, probably should've found something sturdier to mount the connector on, but it works.
Well as the STe has both internal drive selects on the internal cable, I decided to make myself an adapter and modified a twisted PC floppy cable so it'd actually allow use of both drives.
Floppy cable was nice and easy to change, though maybe not the neatest job!
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This thing was probably more effort than it was really worth but did allow me to image some of my old disks that aren't as reliable as they once were.
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And to finish off a drive swap switch using a butchered usb cable so I can still boot games off the actual floppy drive if I want.
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Was good practice soldering and learnt a few things from it and I haven't had to poke a soldering iron anywhere near the STe motherboard at least. I could probably do with a similar solution for external drives
As noted on the store the pins are very fragile!