Floppy controller
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Forum Name: Intel Motherboards
Forum Description: Question about ASRock Intel Motherboards
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Topic: Floppy controller
Posted By: qq1975b
Subject: Floppy controller
Date Posted: 30 Sep 2015 at 3:49am
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Hi, What are the most newer Asrock motherboards that still have the floppy controller? Thank you |
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Posted By: parsec
Date 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/" rel="nofollow - 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. ------------- http://valid.x86.fr/48rujh" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Xaltar
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2015 at 2:28pm
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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 http://www.amazon.com/Teac-Corp-Floppy-Drive-External/dp/B0007VE044" rel="nofollow - this from Amazon. I hope this helps
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Posted By: qq1975b
Date Posted: 01 Oct 2015 at 4:40pm
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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. :( |