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Connecting a 3.5" Floppy Drive to a modern motherboard

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March 19, 2013 2:44:13 PM

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?

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March 19, 2013 5:31:52 PM

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.
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