Re: OT: Can modern PCs run 5-1/4" floppy drives?

Michael A. Terrell wrote:

Joerg wrote:

Nah, it's mutual. I don't like to keep stuff either, there has got to be
a solution. In fact, I'd like to reduce the office footprint here at
some point and keeping the old box goes in the wrong direction. When
googling I found that this is by far not the only mobo that has been
lobotomized down to one floppy drive. Only a matter of time until that
number becomes zero (AFAICT it has on some).



Some of the cheap Dell home PCs are shipped without a floppy drive,
and the motherboard didn't have a connector, or the controller chip
installed.


This one does have the connector and the controller chip. Found the chip's data*** and it does support two drives of nearly all flavors I've ever heard of. For some reason the BIOS only supports a single drive and only one format.

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