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Floppy Drive on a x470 Board

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5 minutes ago, Nayr438 said:

I see plenty of options for adapting Sata to IDE but not vice versa.

Floppies are a different connector/protocol from IDE. There's no way to adapt SATA to floppy.

 

8 minutes ago, Nayr438 said:

internal USB

Something like this (with an internal header adapter) is probably your best bet (assuming you have a floppy drive already).

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So I have a crazy question.

I have tried searching around and I have had limited results in this. I am looking to add a Floppy Drive to a x470 Board, preferably Sata or internal USB as I have a itx board, but I am also open to PCI-E cards.

I have seen the external options, but I am looking for something internal. I see plenty of options for adapting Sata to IDE but not vice versa.

Anyone have any suggestions of how I could accomplish this?

 

This is more of just curiosity as I occasionally work with Floppy Drives for older systems.

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there are usb floppy drives

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5 minutes ago, Nayr438 said:

I see plenty of options for adapting Sata to IDE but not vice versa.

Floppies are a different connector/protocol from IDE. There's no way to adapt SATA to floppy.

 

8 minutes ago, Nayr438 said:

internal USB

Something like this (with an internal header adapter) is probably your best bet (assuming you have a floppy drive already).

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17 minutes ago, AbydosOne said:

Something like this (with an internal header adapter) is probably your best bet (assuming you have a floppy drive already).

This however is what I am looking for, Seems I was searching with the wrong terms and pin count.

I have a internal USB HUB and a stack of floppy drives so this is perfect. Thanks.

 

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The floppy drive connector is different than the IDE connector - you can't get an IDE controller and use it, unless it actually has dedicated floppy header.

 

One option you have is to go with a SCSI floppy drive, and then maybe find some PCI SCSI adapter.... you could then source some pci-e to pci  adapter card, plug the pci scsi adapter into the adapter card and you got yourself a scsi controller on pci-e.

You may even find pci-e based scsi controllers, but you'll also have to check if they support the scsi standard the floppy has.

 

If you don't need bios level support and all that, there are lots of floppy drive emulators which connect to usb internal and you simply plug a  usb stick or some SD card with floppy disc images.

 

 

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