Istvan Gabor wrote:
2012. január 19. 16:53 napon David Haller<dnh@opensuse.org> írta:
Hello,
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, Istvan Gabor wrote:
Is there a search engine/page for PC motherboards where I can find motherboards by properties, eg. floppy, serial port, parallel port, IDE port support? To some extent (all in german, but the descriptions are pretty selfexplanatory using standard names): http://geizhals.de http://geizhals.at
Thank you all for the suggestions. The Gigabyte mobos your mentioned look OK. The historical comments are also interesting. I did not work with such old hardwares but I used in the mid 90s a Colorado tape driver in DOS. As for the addon cards, most of the new mobos I've seen has only 1 PCI slot, that is I should choose between a floppy, serial, or parallel port PCI card. And yes, I use these old ports: parallel for my workhorse old printer, serial for my fax modem, and floppy for loading diagnostic tools like SeaTools etc.
Thanks again,
Istvan
What about USB connected floppy? You should be able to boot from one of those. Also, why bother with floppies these days? Wouldn't bootable USB device or CD be better? Also, if you get an external USB floppy drive, it can be used with multiple computers. I have one here, that I bought with a ThinkPad, a few years ago. However, it took me a while to find a floppy to put in it to test with. ;-) When I plugged in the USB floppy, it appeared at /dev/sdb and I was able to mount it, when there was a floppy in it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org