Abit IP35 Motherboard

[Chuck(G)]

You could dig deep into the BIOS and alter the configuration register setup (not an easy job) and then run wires from the appropriate pins to the floppy connector. Assuming, of course, that the alternate use (THRMO#) isn't critical to the motherboard functioning.

Of course, the pin may simply be NC, along with NDS1. Some probing might get to the real picture to see where those signals go currently.

 

[GianDO76]

The pin can either turn on the motor for the B floppy drive or it can carry Thermal Output # which does not seem to have a clear explanation.

I guess either "or" not means both.
Cosa vuol dire "The function configuration of this pin is determined by
programming the software configuration registers."?

 

[GianDO76]

Yesterday I found this Gigabyte EP43-UD3L motherboard, it has an IT8718F Super I/O which seems to have DRVB and MTRB pins, but only one floppy appears in the BIOS. What can I do?

 

[Chuck(G)]

Start by tracing the MTRB and DRVB pins from the IC. Where do they go?

 

[GianDO76]

Yesterday I found a motherboard that is right for me, a BIOSTAR I915P-A7 ULTRA, it supports two floppy drives and seems to work, unfortunately it has SATA 1, but if I wanted I could always add a SATA 2 controller in a PCIe slot. I'll do some testing these days.

 

[Chuck(G)]

Good luck--it will be interesting if the two-floppy support is real. I have no reason to doubt that it will be.

 

[GianDO76]

Good luck--it will be interesting if the two-floppy support is real. I have no reason to doubt that it will be.

I have already tested the functionality of the two floppy drives, it's real!

 

[Chuck(G)]

Count yourself fortunate. Socket 775 apparently is close enough evolution-wise to P4 that 2-floppy systems were still possible.