Floppy controller

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   Hi,

What are the most newer Asrock motherboards that still have the floppy controller?

Thank you

Edited by qq1975b - 30 Sep 2015 at 1:06pm

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qq1975b Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 30 Sep 2015 Status: Offline Points: 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote qq1975b Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Floppy controller Posted: 30 Sep 2015 at 3:49am
	Hi, What are the most newer Asrock motherboards that still have the floppy controller? Thank you Edited by qq1975b - 30 Sep 2015 at 1:06pm

parsec Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Joined: 04 May 2015 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 4996	Post Options Post Reply Quote parsec Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 01 Oct 2015 at 12:05pm
	Newer ASRock boards with a floppy controller... I searched backwards in time by Intel chipset until I finally found a board that had a floppy controller. That was a G31M-S board from 2008, no doubt long out of production. http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/G31M-S/ My advice would be to try to find a separate floppy controller add on board, for a PCIe x1 slot or more likely a PCI slot. I'm sorry but you just won't find a floppy controller chip on a current board that has M.2 slots for PCIe SSDs, and supports NVMe.


Xaltar Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Joined: 16 May 2015 Location: Europe Status: Online Points: 25028	Post Options Post Reply Quote Xaltar Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 01 Oct 2015 at 2:28pm
	Sadly Parsec is right, legacy support for floppy drives ceased a long time ago, even looking through the workstation and server boards by ASRock which often have more legacy features yielded nothing newer than Parsec posted. I assume you are looking for a floppy drive to read old floppies? If so then I would look into something like this from Amazon. I hope this helps

qq1975b Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 30 Sep 2015 Status: Offline Points: 4	Post Options Post Reply Quote qq1975b Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 01 Oct 2015 at 4:40pm
	Hi, Thank you for your replies. Asrock is the only motherboard manufacturer that still uses in some models legacy I/O support. The most modern motherboards I found are: Intel: Z77 Extreme6 AMD: 990FX Extreme4 The problem is that Asrock has many motherboards models and you easily get lost. It doesn't have a good compare tool based on specs. Anyway...There is no PCI/PCIe FDD controller and USB FDD have less features....so at the end it seems you need a special FDD controller (like a Catweasel)...thing I would like to avoid but it seems not possible. :(