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

Late at night, by candle light, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> penned this immortal opus:

Baron wrote:
Joerg wrote:

ChairmanOfTheBored wrote:
On Fri, 12 Oct 2007 09:33:35 -0700, Joerg
<notthisjoergsch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It's the
Phoenix AwardBIOS 1.0.3. I am very surprised that such legacy
features were chopped off.

It's not THE phoenix Award BIOS v1.0.3, It is the:

<insert MOBO make and model name here> BIOS v 1.0.3, provided by the
Award Bios vendor. The versions are MOBO specific, and IF Dell comes
out
with another, it will increment. Phoenix is merely the provider.
Dell authors the code.

So Dell wrote the BIOS? Interesting. I thought they were migrating
farther away from the design process. At least they seem to be doing
that with hardware.


Actually, the entire MOBO is likely made FOR Dell by a popular MOBO
maker.

Yes, by Foxconn.


There's your solution. Examine the form factor of the MOBO, and
BUY a
cheap MOBO that fits it, that carries the floppy utilization capacity
you
need! :-] Bet you could find one for less than $50.

Either that or get a BIOS for a similar G33 Foxconn mobo that includes
the drive support I need. If the HW is on the mobo it can't be rocket
science to access it. Someone said that Linux bypasses the BIOS and
see all the stuff that's on the mobo but was blocked out by the BIOS
that came with it. Maybe there is a kludge for Windows that does that.

My curiosity tells me that I want to figure this out some day and not
take the easy road of swapping the mobo. But not right now, no time.

Joerg, Don't mess about! Try a Linux Live CD. You could be pleasantly
surprised.


Much of my stuff doesn't work under Linux and some supposedly not even
in a VM.

If it lets you mount both the 5 1/4" drive and the NTFS partition you
can copy off the files. Then just boot back into Windows.

- YD.

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