Floppy Disk Controller Card

[willg]

I am new to these forums and I was wondering where I could find a floppy disk controller card....I would like to add a second floppy drive to my system but my intel board only supports one.

thanks,
will

 

[Zim Hosein]

willg, first off, welcome to AT 🙂

I may be mistaken, but all you need is a floppy cable w/ one connector for the motherboard end, and two connectors on the other end, where you would plug in your two floppy drives. Maybe someone here can clarify this for us 🙂

 

[willg]

that is what i thought too...but i tried it and for some reason the second drive did not show up anywhere...i then went into the bios and discovered that there is no "B" drive. i was confused and so i checked a website (somewhere i dont remember where) and it said that newer motherboards sometimes only support a single device out of that port and if you want a second floppy drive you need a controller card.

-will

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: willg
that is what i thought too...but i tried it and for some reason the second drive did not show up anywhere...i then went into the bios and discovered that there is no "B" drive. i was confused and so i checked a website (somewhere i dont remember where) and it said that newer motherboards sometimes only support a single device out of that port and if you want a second floppy drive you need a controller card.

-will

I remember seeing a floppy controller in a catalog a few years ago, but it used the ISA bus, which won't be of any help in most motherboards these days (which only have PCI). A quick search of newegg for "floppy controller" turned up no results. However, if you need a 2nd floppy drive (no idea why, but anyway), you might want to consider an external floppy drive that connects with the USB bus.

 

[mgpaulus]

Another option can be something like an Adaptec SCSI controller w/floppy controller. Like maybe a AHA1535, or something similar.

 

[Peter]

FDC cards will be out of reach unless you still have ISA slots. Your way out: Get an USB floppy drive, or if your operating system doesn't do USB, a "SuperDrive" thingie with IDE/ATAPI connection.

regards, Peter