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First post, by Moogle!

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I have this braindead 486 PCI / ISA board, that has no I/O or floppy on it. It's this piece of crap right here. Seriously, what kind of sick, twisted person sticks IDE ports on a board, but not a floppy controller?

Seeing as how I have little money to spend these days, I figure it's best to get an I/O card for this board rather than try shotting for another 486 PCI board on Ebay.

The card I'm looking for must support a 1.44MB floppy, and must have a serial port. IDE, parallel, and game ports are optional, though will likely be included anyway. IT MUST BE BOOTABLE. The ability to completely disable certain parts such as IDE are highly desirable. I've looked at some cards on Ebay, they seem to go for decent prices, but I thought I'd ask, so as to get something decent and avoid errant turds.

Reply 1 of 2, by Amigaz

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Just get a 16bit ISA IDE/Floppy controller board and disable the IDE port on it

For example this:

http://cgi.ebay.de/ISA-Schnittstelle-ESIO-V1- … 1QQcmdZViewItem

Seems to be good motherboard you got there...UMC chipset...good layout

Does it have the UM8881F chipset?

My retro computer stuff: https://lychee.jjserver.net/#16136303902327