Motherboard that supports both 5.25" and 3.5" floppy drives?

[vortix]

Does anyone know of a Socket A motherboard that will support both a 3.5" and a 5.25" floppy drive? I'm building a computer for my grandpa and he has a 5.25" floppy drive he needs in there to read some old disks he has. I'd rather use an SDRAM board since I have some extra RAM I can throw in there. From what I can tell, it looks like most motherboards have one floppy controller - but I'm not sure if more than one drive can be hooked up to this.

Thanks!

 

[stevewm]

All motherboards support 5.25 floppy drives. And yes you can hook both up at the same time, one will be A: and the other B: Your floppy drive cable will have multiple connectors on it. Just plug each drive into one and set the A: and B: floppy drive types in the BIOS to the correct one.

 

[HappyPuppy]

What stevewm said. Also, take a look at the ECS K7S5A motherboard. It can use SDRAM or DDR SDRAM. Good mobo for cheaps.

 

[mee987]

make sure you have a cable with both types of connectors, then place one drive before the little twisted part in the cable (b and one drive after the twisted part (a

 

[Relayer]

Just copy the 5 1/4 disks to the hard drive, then burn them to CD or put on 3 1/2 floppys. Then properly dispose of the 5 1/4 drive.