Re: [SWCollect] 5.25s vs. 3.5s

[Howard Feldman]

Myself, I've still got a handy Teac 'combo' 3.5/5.25 drive which I 
picked up maybe 5 years ago for about $50.  It worked great and only 
needed a floppy cable with a single connector, and even supports 
swapping drive A and B with jumpers (if the BIOS doesnt allow this).  So 
you can imagine how pissed I was when I discovered that Asus M/B BIOSes 
no longer support a B drive!!!  Is that ridiculous or what?  I mean how 
much extra work would it be for them to support an extra floppy?  Or 
maybe it was wasting 100 bytes of BIOS memory that they needed for 
something useless like APM??

So I can still use it as a 5.25" drive, or a 3.5" drive, just not both 
at the same time.  I must open the computer and switch jumpers to get it 
to work!  So in summary, watch out before buying Asus Motherboards!!! 
(Can anyone list decent contemporary M/B manufacturers whose BIOS DO 
support 2 floppy drives??  Gigabyte?  Abit?  Intel?)

Edward Franks wrote:

    It is going to get even worse.  My current motherboard doesn't even 
support a B: drive!  As I need the 3.5 inch drive as my A: drive this 
means I'll need to keep an older PC around just to deal with 5.25 
floppies.  But how many people have room or even want an older PC around 
just for a few odd games?

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Howard Feldman
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