First post, by Gahhhrrrlic
Despite my best efforts, I have been unable to find any of the suggested modern boards that still support floppy, for sale anywhere. Therefore I had to make another concession for my legacy friendly power computer: It will have the PCI slots, COM port and PS/2 that I want but will be missing an FLP controller and parallel port. I figured this would be ok because I could just find a card that would give me a floppy controller. However so far I have only found PCI cards that do this. Two problems with this:
1) I have a ton of PCI-E slots on my current board and would rather use one of them
2) I only have 2 PCI slots, one of which I have reserved for another device I want to install and the 2nd slot is covered by the 2nd PCI-E if I get a dual slot video card for crossfire - not a must right this very minute but if I use both PCI slots I kill any upgrading paths for video.
Are there any PCI-E floppy controllers available? Very important that whatever solution I get is actually bootable, not just one of those dime a dozen floppy drives that run off USB.
I have 1 possible fallback: A very special (to me) usb floppy drive from Panasonic. Supposedly it's one of the only floppy drives ever built that will boot natively through usb, so long as the BIOS scans usb on boot. It's just a PITA because the chord is really short so it'd literally be hanging from the USB port, front or back.
Wondering what others have done to maintain bootable floppy support on their modern rigs.