Connecting a 3.5" Floppy Drive to a modern motherboard

smb3master

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Hey guys, I'm wondering about how to connect a Floppy Drive to a modern motherboard, I know floppy drives use a Molex and IDE interface, but any modern motherboard I've seen uses SATA 3Gb/s and SATA 6Gb/s.
So would there be any way to convert SATA to IDE?
Or is there any Motherboard that still uses IDE interface?
 
Floppy drives are not IDE. They use an antiquated low level interface that has read/write and position lines.
They need an on board controller which is usually only provided on boards designed as replacements for legacy systems.

Unfortunately I could not find any PCI controller cards either. It looks like the only choice is USB which is inferior in some ways.