A8N-SLI Floppy Support

[DJ]

I'm assembling an A8N-SLI system for a friend and he included two 3-1/2
floppys. I can only get the system to recognize one floppy drive, that being
the A: drive. Does this board support more than one floppy drive?

Thanks,
David
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[Robert Hancock]

I'm assembling an A8N-SLI system for a friend and he included two 3-1/2
floppys. I can only get the system to recognize one floppy drive, that being
the A: drive. Does this board support more than one floppy drive?

I don't think so, most current boards only support a single floppy drive.

 

[DJ]

Thanks for the feedback. I'll go with the single floppy. Who needs more
anyway?

 

[Captain Cuspid]

If you can still find an old flat floppy cable, they have connectors for 2
floppys. And yes using these you can install 2 floppy's on the single
motherboard floppy connector. But I don't know why you would want to.

 

[Robert Hancock]

If you can still find an old flat floppy cable, they have connectors for 2
floppys. And yes using these you can install 2 floppy's on the single
motherboard floppy connector. But I don't know why you would want to.

Generally it is not just the cable, the controller doesn't support more
than one drive.

 

[Captain Cuspid]

Your wrong. Most boards only have one IDE connector, but they support 2
drives, a master and slave. Its the same with the floppy, thats why the flat
ribbon cable has a twist in the wires. Also look in the bios, there is
usually an option to add another floppy drive on the one controller. But
like I said, why would you want to?

 

[Robert Hancock]

Your wrong. Most boards only have one IDE connector, but they support 2
drives, a master and slave. Its the same with the floppy, thats why the flat
ribbon cable has a twist in the wires. Also look in the bios, there is
usually an option to add another floppy drive on the one controller. But
like I said, why would you want to?

The floppy standard supports 2 drives on the same cable, but most
current motherboards no longer support this. The BIOS usually doesn't
have an entry for the second floppy drive, and in at least some cases
the Super I/O chip on the motherboard physically doesn't support a
second floppy.