4 Jan
2011
4 Jan
'11
6:20 a.m.
On 1/3/2011 1:22 AM, David Griffith wrote:
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Charlie Carothers wrote:
I believe you're correct. I don't do all that many builds and have not
used MSI yet, but that appears to be a quite nice board. The user
reviews do seem a bit mixed, although the poor grammar in many of the
1-egg ones makes me wonder about the general intelligence and technical
competence of the reviewer. I think the Gigabyte boards I quickly
looked at were a bit lower on the performance curve than your MSI one.
I guess one is lucky to get even one 2-device PATA port and one original
type PCI slot these days.
I suspect my PC performance needs tend to be a bit lower than many, and
as a result I view many of the "improvements" as just a scheme to move
more $ out of my account. If I was not concerned about violating Fred's
copyright, I'd probably change my signature to "Grumpy old Charlie". ;-)
Luck,
Charlie C.
On 12/31/2010 5:12 AM, David Griffith wrote:
I was looking at this one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130274 which
doesn't appear to have a floppy port.
I'm looking at my aging desktop machine and realize that its replacement
probably won't have a native floppy interface, so I started thinking
about the super-powered USB-floppy interface previously discussed here.
I forgot what it was called, so I stumbled across this page:
http://www.deviceside.com/. I quickly figured out what I wanted was the
Discferret. Does anyone know anything about this anemic alternative?
This led me to some more questions:
1) Can the Discferret handle flippies?
2) Can I daisychain two drives to a single Discferret?
3) How much more work would it be to make a Discferret talk to an 8-inch
drive?
I'd buy one or two now, but finances aren't that great right now.
I've no idea which motherboard you are thinking of getting, but I just
looked and it appears that several of the Gigabyte ones on NewEgg have
a connector labeled FDD. I'm thinking that's for a Floppy Disk Drive,
though it seems one is not mentioned in the list of storage devices.
BTW, I've no affiliation with either Gigabyte or NewEgg; I'm just a
very satisfied customer of both. If you're thinking of an already
assembled PC replacement then I'm sure you're right that there won't
be a floppy drive included, and for cost reasons there probably won't
be a port/connector either.