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From: spodosaurus on 18 May 2010 08:41
On 17/05/2010 9:36 AM, Puddin' Man wrote:
> My new Asus P7H55D-M EVO mobo knows naught of diskette controllers. I'm
> about to decide that I cannot cover the bases without a floppy drive.
>
> What do folks in similar circumstance do to put a floppy drive on
> their systems? A diskette controller on an add-on pci card?
> A USB diskette drive?
>
> Thx,
> P
>
> "Law Without Equity Is No Law At All. It Is A Form Of Jungle Rule."
>

usb for me. One drive to boot them all, one drive to flash them, one
drive for diagnostics, and with the wrong BIOS crash them...

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From: Flasherly on 22 May 2010 06:55
On May 16, 9:36 pm, Puddin' Man <puddingDOT...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> My new Asus P7H55D-M EVO mobo knows naught of diskette controllers. I'm
> about to decide that I cannot cover the bases without a floppy drive.
>
> What do folks in similar circumstance do to put a floppy drive on
> their systems? A diskette controller on an add-on pci card?
> A USB diskette drive?

Those are all later than a DVD/CD with a boot ISO. Not quite as
simple as - format b: /s - but at least any motherboards that don't
support assigning an optical to its primary boot sequence probably
have long since blown their capacitors. A few left, MBs requiring ATA
optical or hard drives as the only option to boot. Athlon XPs and
such pushing a decade usage. Lots floppies in landfills between here
and there.
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