What are the practical differences between LS-120 and LS-240? If 240 is backwards compatible, maybe I could get that?

As the wise Tetrium wrote : I'd first make a list of what exact formats you will want to support. In the end it will come down to saving as many internal connections as possible by using as many external ones as you can Ow man, there's so many different roads that you can walk to try and get what …

Anyway, I'd also advice you to also just start with the build. There will always be things unforeseen and specific to your requirements and situations. Btw, which of the media drives do you have anyway? None so far, this is so far only hypothetical, a random idea I got. I tend to do that a lot... …

Yeah, that thread is where I got that AsRock mobo for Athlon from. Good thing you dissuaded me from getting that one. So now I'm trying to decide between two Gigabyte mobos: GA-P43-ES3 and GGA-965P-DS3. Here are their layout schematics compared: https://i.postimg.cc/wvpXtJJ9/mobos.png The P43 is a …

Thanks for the many suggestions, I now think the issue can be solved one way or another. I'm leaning towards installing the 5,25'' drive to the FDD controller and just converting the 3,5'' to USB, so that Gigabyte mobo does look promising indeed, though it supports only one floppy. That ConRoe865PE …

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/GCoAAOSwAE9b4zmA/s-l1600.jpg Also, just realized these were a thing... Damn. Looks like we've got Solution 3). They use identical connectors as traditional 3,5'' drives, so I wonder if that adapter card that converts them to USB would make both bays readable? Anyway, …

First off NEAT! I never even knew that pci floppy controllers existed, usually cards like that are just IDE and SATA.( EDIT: NM thats just IDE on that card.) Secondly with a board/CPU that old the HD 3850/4670 cards are pretty much pointless. Not enough CPU power and you end up running into …

Ok, I did some reading and came up with the required components. Here's a list. Do you think this could work? Case: Chieftec BIGTOWER ATX 1x Motherboard: AsRock K7S41GX 1x CPU: AMD Athlon XP 3200+ 1x AGP Sapphire Radeon HD3850 graphics card FDD: 1x FDD 5,25''/3,5'' tape 1x FDD 3,5'' drive 1x FDD 5, …

Hey guys, having the same conundrum here. I'd like to build a system that has support for most of the popular and less popular storage media, and I realized the 5,25'' floppy drive is going to be the limiting factor on the system's age. So a Pentium 4 motherboard, aye? I also need it to take an IDE …

Well the HD4670 and HD 3850 are super expensive and the only AGP cards with unified shaders and any kind of modern video acceleration. For cases if you want to stick to Beige check out the Antec SX series, and the Cheiftec branding of it. Now, if using a single floppy drive isnt an issue I had an …

I "Think" Intel 865 or 875 chipset boards, and maybe some VIA or SIS based ones from the socket 775 and or AMD 939 era will support 5.25 floppies, I think that will be the biggest hurdle is finding something with that and a pcie slot. For actual web browsing and modern video playback you really …

Hello guys! I've been lurking these forums for a while now and gotta say, love the place and how much valuable info on retro hardware one can learn here. I'm going through a phase of fascination with retro hardware, but even more than that, I'm fascinated by obscure data storage media. So I came up …