As the title says what is the easiest way to do this? I have a 386 with floppy but it uses an isa controller card. My asrock k7vt2 mobo does not have isa. I dont mind if i have to repurchase a drive with more modern compatibility. Just not sure what to look for. Thanks!
The K7VT2 has a floppy controller on-board. Not sure what the actual question now is. Just connect it the same way it's connected in your 386.
wrote:The K7VT2 has a floppy controller on-board. Not sure what the actual question now is. Just connect it the same way it's connected in your 386.
Are you sure?? Not talking about a 3.44" diskette drive. Talking about a 5.25" floppy drive.
wrote:wrote:The K7VT2 has a floppy controller on-board. Not sure what the actual question now is. Just connect it the same way it's connected in your 386.
Are you sure?? Not talking about a 3.44" diskette drive. Talking about a 5.25" floppy drive.
both 3.5" and 5.25" drives have the exact same interface, if your mobo has a floppy controller onboard just plug it in and choose the correct drive type in BIOS
wrote:wrote:wrote:The K7VT2 has a floppy controller on-board. Not sure what the actual question now is. Just connect it the same way it's connected in your 386.
Are you sure?? Not talking about a 3.44" diskette drive. Talking about a 5.25" floppy drive.
both 3.5" and 5.25" drives have the exact same interface, if your mobo has a floppy controller onboard just plug it in and choose the correct drive type in BIOS
This is weird.. everywhere online I read that it is near impossable and now I read this...I found this and thoughtI needed this:
http://shop.deviceside.com/prod/FC5025
But I will try..
wrote:I found this and thoughtI needed this:
http://shop.deviceside.com/prod/FC5025
This is for connecting a 5.25" drive via USB. Since your mainboard has a floppy controller, that's not needed.
wrote:wrote:I found this and thoughtI needed this:
http://shop.deviceside.com/prod/FC5025This is for connecting a 5.25" drive via USB. Since your mainboard has a floppy controller, that's not needed.
So I tried and have major issues. Once I connected the 5.25 floppy the system crashed on Post (not even lettibg me go into the bios). Removing the drive lets me get back in the bios but the system is not recognisibg any of my ide drives no more.. tried several.. so i caanot boot anymore.. also the time it takes between pressing F2 to go into bios and the system actually doing it is like 5x the time from before .. can a floppy drive break parts of my motherboard?? Not sure whatvis happening here..
Make sure the floppy is at the end of the cable if it is drive a:, or in the middle if it is drive b:. Also note that most 5.25" floppy drives still had a termination jumper or even a physical terminator. This is required if the drive is connected at the cable's end.
Apart from that, no, a floppy drive can not break a mainboard. Check if a cable became loose while you were working inside the system.
wrote:This is weird.. everywhere online I read that it is near impossable and now I read this...I found this and thoughtI needed this:
http://shop.deviceside.com/prod/FC5025
Every 5.25" drive usb solution I have seen is READ ONLY.
Check out DOSBox Distro:
https://sites.google.com/site/dosboxdistro/ [*]
a lightweight Linux distro (tinycore) which boots off a usb flash drive and goes straight to DOSBox.
Make your dos retrogaming experience portable!
wrote:Every 5.25" drive usb solution I have seen is READ ONLY.
KryoFlux is read-write.
Anyway, since late 90s, many onboard FDCs were limited to one drive only - it's still possible to use a 5.25" drive, but not together with another drive.
Nie tylko, jak widzicie, w tym trudność, że nie zdołacie wejść na moją górę, lecz i w tym, że ja do was cały zejść nie mogę, gdyż schodząc, gubię po drodze to, co miałem donieść.
