I have a system with two floppy drives (3.5/5.25).

I swapped the mainboard to an ASRock 939SLI32-eSATA2 yesterday.

Install went smooth with a few exceptions (I had to manually specify I had DDR400 memory) but I noticed there's no place to define the second floppy drive in the BIOS setup.

This saddens me especially after I aluminium-painted the 5.25 drive to match my case.

Is there a way to prod Windows into recognizing the second drive, even if the BIOS won't?

Or do later or unofficial BIOSes (I have 1.10) have support for a second drive?

My eMachines T2040 only recognizes a single floppy and I tried a couple of things to get two floppys recognized ... no go.

-MF

floppies are a dying breed... i would be happy you have support for 1 =)

but on a serious note... why do you need 2 floppy drives?

Quote: floppies are a dying breed... i would be happy you have support for 1 =) but on a serious note... why do you need 2 floppy drives?

idd... I'm wondering as well... my next build won't have one at all... I afterall... I can boot from my network,
usb stick & cd/dvd drive....

TDR

Quote: Originally Posted by THRiLL KiLL floppies are a dying breed... i would be happy you have support for 1 =) but on a serious note... why do you need 2 floppy drives?

The real question here should be why do you need a 5.25 floppy drive? Its 2006 man move on! LOL

Quote: Originally Posted by The Dragon Reborn idd... I'm wondering as well... my next build won't have one at all... I afterall... I can boot from my network, usb stick & cd/dvd drive.... TDR

i dumped mine ages ago.... (4 years to be excact)

i dont see the need for one =) slipstream and being able to do flashes from a cd makes life eaiser...

Why, Bouve?

1) Because I can

2) I have a big stack of 5.25" discs I used to back up my system before I bought a 3.5" drive in like 1999, and should probably skim 'em.

3) Because I can

4) Because nobody else has an aluminium-painted 5.25" drive; it earns far more leetness points than your mere 7900GTX SLI pairing.

5) Because I can.

6) It's funny to see a DOS 6.22 boot disc (360k no less) on an Athlon 64.

7) Because I can

8) The two-device floppy cables I have are miles longer which is good for routing it to the really stupid place ASRock insists on putting the floppy plug (below the lowest PCI slot), and if I don't plug the second connector into something, it's a waste. That's also why I have a Zip drive waiting to be done something with as primary slave, despite the fact I no longer can find my Zip discs.

9) Because I can.

10) Removing the 5.25" drive would entail having to wedge one of the drive blanks back in, and those are a pain in the neck with this case.

Quote: Originally Posted by Hak Foo Why, Bouve? 1) Because I can 2) I have a big stack of 5.25" discs I used to back up my system before I bought a 3.5" drive in like 1999, and should probably skim 'em. 3) Because I can 4) Because nobody else has an aluminium-painted 5.25" drive; it earns far more leetness points than your mere 7900GTX SLI pairing. 5) Because I can. 6) It's funny to see a DOS 6.22 boot disc (360k no less) on an Athlon 64. 7) Because I can 8) The two-device floppy cables I have are miles longer which is good for routing it to the really stupid place ASRock insists on putting the floppy plug (below the lowest PCI slot), and if I don't plug the second connector into something, it's a waste. That's also why I have a Zip drive waiting to be done something with as primary slave, despite the fact I no longer can find my Zip discs. 9) Because I can. 10) Removing the 5.25" drive would entail having to wedge one of the drive blanks back in, and those are a pain in the neck with this case.

obviously you cant.. as newer bios do not support more then 1 floppy device.

Quote: Originally Posted by Hak Foo Why, Bouve? 1) Because I can 2) I have a big stack of 5.25" discs I used to back up my system before I bought a 3.5" drive in like 1999, and should probably skim 'em. 3) Because I can 4) Because nobody else has an aluminium-painted 5.25" drive; it earns far more leetness points than your mere 7900GTX SLI pairing. 5) Because I can. 6) It's funny to see a DOS 6.22 boot disc (360k no less) on an Athlon 64. 7) Because I can 8) The two-device floppy cables I have are miles longer which is good for routing it to the really stupid place ASRock insists on putting the floppy plug (below the lowest PCI slot), and if I don't plug the second connector into something, it's a waste. That's also why I have a Zip drive waiting to be done something with as primary slave, despite the fact I no longer can find my Zip discs. 9) Because I can. 10) Removing the 5.25" drive would entail having to wedge one of the drive blanks back in, and those are a pain in the neck with this case.

All those are reasons but IMHO they are worthless reasons. It would be one thing if you were building a retro pc, but your not. I'm not trying to start a fight here... I just don't see the point of having one, or wanting one.