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by WalterBright 2241 days ago
> PCs still support for 5.25" discs

Not for the last 10 years. Even though the cable fits, the BIOS does not recognize it.
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snvzz 2240 days ago
I haven't seen any motherboard with FDC for over a decade.

And I could use one... I actually do use floppies still.

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myself248 2240 days ago
Guess I'll be keeping my socket AM2+ board around indefinitely, then! I just tossed a Phenom into it to buy it some relevance as the AthlonX2 which it held for the last decade was feeling a bit old, but I'm considering going back just for thermal reasons -- my god, Phenoms run hot.

That machine has all my floppy, cdrom, and internal Zip drives in it right now. I could stand to upgrade it to SSD though; the old 120GB is getting noisy and I suspect the bearings are shot.

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snvzz 2240 days ago
Yeah, I use some even older athlon K75 for this.

I do actually wonder if there's any sort of EFI support for floppies.

Edit: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/f1...

What a mess. Likely just works on netbsd, but I hate this sort of thing.

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