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From: Puddin' Man on 16 May 2010 21:36 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."
From: Pen on 16 May 2010 22:21 On 5/16/2010 9:36 PM, 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." > I have a USB floppy that I move around to various machines as needed. I'm very happy with mine, it's a Teac.
From: Conor on 16 May 2010 22:23 On 17/05/2010 02:36, 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. > Rubbish. There's not a computer built in the last 15 years that doesn't have USB. -- Conor I'm not prejudiced. I hate everyone equally.
From: John Doe on 16 May 2010 23:22 Puddin' Man <puddingDOTman 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. Diskette drives are obsolete. -- > 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." > > > > Path: news.astraweb.com!border5.newsrouter.astraweb.com!news-out.octanews.net!indigo.octanews.net!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail > From: Puddin' Man <puddingDOTman gmail.com> > Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt > Subject: Diskette drive on new build > Date: Sun, 16 May 2010 20:36:02 -0500 > Organization: Amalgamated MoFlog > Lines: 12 > Message-ID: <i171v590ggj1enj1k2p0its00klvohktnr 4ax.com> > Reply-To: Pudding Dot Man At Gmail Dot Com > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Injection-Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 01:36:08 +0000 (UTC) > Injection-Info: mx03.eternal-september.org; posting-host="b1BlcL1JiQneO0jd4E2Aaw"; logging-data="8373"; mail-complaints-to="abuse eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+XCztbhZtiMiHn6QzMyzZxgJFL+dVY1fc=" > X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 3.3/32.846 > Cancel-Lock: sha1:CbBhdpiQSPGZKd/dhB9fMHtwFJQ= >
From: TVeblen on 17 May 2010 06:54
On 5/16/2010 9:36 PM, 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." > People who choose to maintain floppy disk usage go with any of the options: a USB external drive, a multi-card reader (these come USB or internal: fits in a 5" bay), or an add-on controller card. Whatever floats your boat. Modern systems use USB as the replacement for the floppy disk for diagnostic and setup tasks. You can flash a BIOS, load drivers, create an install 'disk', most anything you could (and couldn't) do with a floppy you can do with a USB stick. USB is enumerated by the BIOS and is operational during the boot. So if you, like me, have lots of old stuff on floppy disks that you might want to access one day but have no interest in taking time to transfer everything to new media, a floppy reader is all you would need. |