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

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vortix

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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!
 
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.
 
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🙂
 
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. 🙂
 
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