scharfshutze009
2[H]4U
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I want to say I can support 5.25 inch floppy correctly on the latest hardware or just in general for once, but I don't have an internal 5.25 Floppy Disk drive yet at the moment and you might ask why would I even want something that old let alone still support it, which the answer is that I just do for backwards compatibility to support any situation requiring something that old. However, will a 5.25 Floppy drive work with an Intel Core 2 system or AMD equivalent that last supported 34-pin floppy cable at all or will I have to resort to use an older Intel or AMD compatible system, like say maybe a Pentium 4 socket 478, Pentium III socket 370 Tualatin or Coppermine, or older as in Pentium II Overdrive for socket 8, Socket 7 for Pentium with MMX or non MMX, and last but not least Socket 3 based systems with a Pentium Overdrive that I can't seem to get any media to successfully install or boot an Operating System to because of bad Floppy or just I/O controllers in general.
The last draw is a Unisys 486 low insertion force socket system that currently has a 486 DX2 processor, but might get an upgrade to a Pentium Overdrive eventually and that just had the motherboard with a bad trace replaced with a motherboard with similar problems that had to be trace hopped around with wires or whatever you call what the seller did to fix the board I haven't tried to power on yet as well as still need to transfer the cache chips from the old board to the new board with chip pliers.
I know magnetic storage support needs to end eventually too, but I just want to continue to support it long enough to help others migrate away from it if they can regardless if support for it might not ever officially end somehow. Try not to ridicule as a lot of older motherboards still require use of 3.5 Floppy disks just to flash the BIOS because flashing from CD-ROM or Flash media storage either wasn't possible or as easy. As for what purpose I would need 5.25 Floppy support for once again I basically just want support for it because it is the oldest portable storage media I know of and I far back I want to go considering it's probably the farthest back I can go to support with possibly any modern or more modern system I have or will have.
The last draw is a Unisys 486 low insertion force socket system that currently has a 486 DX2 processor, but might get an upgrade to a Pentium Overdrive eventually and that just had the motherboard with a bad trace replaced with a motherboard with similar problems that had to be trace hopped around with wires or whatever you call what the seller did to fix the board I haven't tried to power on yet as well as still need to transfer the cache chips from the old board to the new board with chip pliers.
I know magnetic storage support needs to end eventually too, but I just want to continue to support it long enough to help others migrate away from it if they can regardless if support for it might not ever officially end somehow. Try not to ridicule as a lot of older motherboards still require use of 3.5 Floppy disks just to flash the BIOS because flashing from CD-ROM or Flash media storage either wasn't possible or as easy. As for what purpose I would need 5.25 Floppy support for once again I basically just want support for it because it is the oldest portable storage media I know of and I far back I want to go considering it's probably the farthest back I can go to support with possibly any modern or more modern system I have or will have.