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More info?)
I've got an A7V600 with a 3.5 floppy on it works fine its an old generic
floppy I don't even know what brand it is. The BIOS can handle floppy boot
if thats what you need.
"Paul" <nospam@needed.com> wrote in message
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> In article <c6rkaa$fa42j$1@ID-54604.news.uni-berlin.de>, "Linea Recta"
> <mccm.vos@abc.net> wrote:
>
> > I ordered a A7V600-X for someone, but afterwards I realised that
nowadays
> > some MB's may not support floppy drives anymore. I forgot to ask
explicitly.
> > Can anyone enlighten me on this?
>
> All the Asus motherboards I've read about so far, have an
> interface for at least one floppy. (I haven't read a manual
> yet where there wasn't one.) If you want two floppy drives
> simultaneously, then investigate the manual more carefully,
> as some Super I/O chips multiplex the signals for a second
> floppy with the IR header, so the second floppy cannot be
> made to work if there is also an IR header.
>
>
http://www.asuscom.de/pub/ASUS/mb/socka/kt600/a7v600-x/e1451_a7v600-x.pdf
>
> Also, there are occasional posts, where a person is not able to
> get a new motherboard to work with an old floppy. When they change
> floppy drive brands, it starts to work. I have no idea why
> that happens.
>
> You should Google on the motherboard model number and the word
> "floppy", to see if there are any known problems.
>
> HTH,
> Paul