Floppy 3 Mode Support?

[mceng]

Just a quick question - routing through my BIOS setup screen I found the option "Floppy 3 Mode Support".

Anybody explain what this actually is?

 

[madmike]

It's a 3.5 floppy drive that supports both 1.2 and 1.44MB formats.

 

[Aceof_Spades]

Floppy 3 is a special 1.2Mb floppy format that is used primarily outside of the United States, mainly in Japan.

Think of it as equivalent of the different DVD format modes used. PAL/NTSC I think is the other one.

Unless your in Japan and using those floppies you will NEVER run into a situation where you need to enable this feature.