[geeks] Looking for a Modern Motherboard w/ Dual Floppy Support

[Anthony Ortenzi]

OT, but cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHJOz_y9rZE&feature=player_embedded

The Imperial March played on two 3.5" floppy drives.

On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:19 AM, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>wrote:

> I may have spoken too fast on floppy controllers... I'll see what I can
> source.
>
> I also have a system-pulled Opteron 148 & a new MB that is mATX size that
> supports dual floppies, but only 2 Gigs DDR 400 RAM & 10/100 NIC.
>
> It's an ASUS A8V-VM MB, and the CPU is a pull.
>
> It's a leftover set from my Sun Opteron desktop CPU upgrade years ago - I
> planned to reuse the CPU but never got around to it...
>
> Lionel
>
> On Apr 10, 2012, at 10:27 AM, "J. Alexander Jacocks" <jjacocks at mac.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> What sort of processor/RAM capacity are you looking for?
> >>
> >> There are add-in floppy controllers, is that not an option?
> >>
> >> Lionel
> >
> > Honestly, I'd prefer a board that is as small as possible.  And, an
> > Intel Socket 775 (Core series), or AMD Socket AM2/AM3 would be
> > preferable, since those are readily available, and cheap (and use
> > DDR2/DDR3 memory, which is also cheap).
> >
> > As far as add-in floppy controllers, I'd love one.  Do you know of
> > one, other than the Catweasel?  AFAIK, the Catweasel has very poor
> > support for anything but Windows XP.  Last time I checked, for
> > instance, the Linux driver development was dead.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > - Alex
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