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I have a motherboard which has:
I need to attach a floppy disk drive, but there is no onboard floppy disk controller. I've looked for the following:
I can't find anything suitable apart from external USB floppy disk drives, but I'd really rather it be internal.
Any ideas?
Matthew Layton
Posted 2015-08-13T18:06:28.423
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There are no internal PC (PCIe, etc.) floppy controllers being manufactured anymore, and I don't believe there was ever a PCIe one.
Get an external USB floppy drive and either live with it outside your chassis, or hack it apart an mount it internally.
Here's a YouTube video of a guy hacking a 3.5" internal Floppy/Card reader drive and combining it with a USB external floppy drive to create a working internal USB floppy drive: Making an Internal USB Floppy Drive
Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007
Posted 2015-08-13T18:06:28.423
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:( It's for a project PC I'm building. Found a motherboard with LGA775 CPU socket, DDR3 RAM and....ISA slots (can you believe it...I can resurrect my old Sound Blaster 16 again)...I just need a Floppy Disk Drive for the DOS stuff. Maybe I'll hunt around for an ISA floppy controller. – Matthew Layton – 2015-08-13T18:38:57.677
What does the interface of the Floppy Disk Drive look like? Is it something like this? Old internal drives require an onboard controller so you may need to get an external one.
– MC10 – 2015-08-13T18:14:54.290@MC10 Yes it's a 34 pin header. I already have an external one; that's my fallback if I can't get one to work internally. The external one is just a standard USB drive, so the other thing I was wondering was could I get an external one and get a usb port to pin out cable and "bodge" it – Matthew Layton – 2015-08-13T18:21:57.360
Yeah, I tried searching for a 34-pin adapter but I don't think they exist. I guess it requires the onboard controller. – MC10 – 2015-08-13T18:35:48.687