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I have a motherboard which has:

  1. SATA
  2. IDE
  3. Internal USB headers

I need to attach a floppy disk drive, but there is no onboard floppy disk controller. I've looked for the following:

  1. Internal USB Floppy Drive
  2. Internal Floppy to USB Cable
  3. Internal Floppy to SATA Cable
  4. PCI Floppy Disk Controller

I can't find anything suitable apart from external USB floppy disk drives, but I'd really rather it be internal.

Any ideas?

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  • What does the interface of the Floppy Disk Drive look like? Is it something like this? Old internal drives require an onboard controller so you may need to get an external one.
    – MC10
    Commented Aug 13, 2015 at 18:14
  • @MC10 Yes it's a 34 pin header. I already have an external one; that's my fallback if I can't get one to work internally. The external one is just a standard USB drive, so the other thing I was wondering was could I get an external one and get a usb port to pin out cable and "bodge" it
    – Matthew Layton
    Commented Aug 13, 2015 at 18:21
  • Yeah, I tried searching for a 34-pin adapter but I don't think they exist. I guess it requires the onboard controller.
    – MC10
    Commented Aug 13, 2015 at 18:35

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There are no internal PC (PCIe, etc.) floppy controllers being manufactured anymore, and I don't believe there was ever a PCIe one.

Get an external USB floppy drive and either live with it outside your chassis, or hack it apart an mount it internally.

Here's a YouTube video of a guy hacking a 3.5" internal Floppy/Card reader drive and combining it with a USB external floppy drive to create a working internal USB floppy drive: Making an Internal USB Floppy Drive

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  • :( It's for a project PC I'm building. Found a motherboard with LGA775 CPU socket, DDR3 RAM and....ISA slots (can you believe it...I can resurrect my old Sound Blaster 16 again)...I just need a Floppy Disk Drive for the DOS stuff. Maybe I'll hunt around for an ISA floppy controller.
    – Matthew Layton
    Commented Aug 13, 2015 at 18:38

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