How to install two floppy drives on an ASUS p5gd2 ?

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DYNAMIC+

Hi...

I'm trying to install a second floppy driver on my ASUS p5gd2.
I have connected both floppies using a ribbon cable with 3 connectors
( http://storage1.evectors.it/images/site001692/bigImages/a52_1.jpg )

WindowsXp does not detect the B: drive, nor bios!
In fact, in the bios there is not an item like "Legacy Diskette B", but
there is only "Legacy Diskette A".

So, it is possible this motherboard does not support 2 floppy drivers?

Motherboard: ASUS p5gd2 (revision 2.06)
Bios: AMI BIOS version 1006.001 (updated @ 21-march-2005)

Thanks!
 
DYNAMIC+ said:
Hi...

I'm trying to install a second floppy driver on my ASUS p5gd2.
I have connected both floppies using a ribbon cable with 3 connectors
( http://storage1.evectors.it/images/site001692/bigImages/a52_1.jpg )

WindowsXp does not detect the B: drive, nor bios!
In fact, in the bios there is not an item like "Legacy Diskette B",
but
there is only "Legacy Diskette A".

So, it is possible this motherboard does not support 2 floppy drivers?

Motherboard: ASUS p5gd2 (revision 2.06)
Bios: AMI BIOS version 1006.001 (updated @ 21-march-2005)

Thanks!
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Didn't you answer your own question. If the BIOS doesn't
have a place to describe a B: drive, then it doesn't
support one. Your only option is to use a USB floppy for
the second one. Actually I'm pretty sure the problem is
the Intel 915P chipset, not supporting a 2nd drive.
 
Uhm :(

Do you think is there another solution, beyond the usb floppy drive?
An additional PCI card that emulates a FDD controller?
 
DYNAMIC+ said:
Uhm :(

Do you think is there another solution, beyond the usb floppy drive?
An additional PCI card that emulates a FDD controller?
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that should work.
such devices do exist...but they may be hard to find
 
I'm curious. Why would you want to do this anyway?

Si
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One reason would be that floppies are relatively unreliable,
and drives may have differing alignments. If a disk can't
be read in one drive it might be readable in another...
which is particularly important if you are dealing with
floppies from multiple other people who have drives of
differing alignments (than the other person). Not that it's
an ideal solution but sometimes you just do what's easiest
for them, as they know how to "do a floppy".

Also, there are now USB media readers in a floppy casing.
One might want a couple of those for copying data back and
forth and why not have the floppy drive built in as they're
now not much if any more expensive than bay readers alone?
 
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