IDE and Floppy PCI Cards?

XPC64 · Oct 16, 2005

Here we go.

I have a Tyan K8WE motherboard with 2x246 Opties, and my IDE and Floppy ports both went out on me this morning. I have tried 3 optical drives, 2 FLoppy Drives, 2 optical and 2 floppy cables, and 2 power supplies, but I cannot read or write to either of them.

I can see the CD-RW in Windows, but cannot read or write to it. On the floppy side, I can see it in Windows as well, but can't write to it.

I guess my question is, are there PCI or PCI-X cards that I can use for the floppy and optical drives? I know there are add-on cards for the optical drives, but not the floppy.

If you know of any good ones, feel free to let me know.

Thank you.

Moto7451 · Oct 16, 2005

There are many PCI cards which will do this. I don't know of any PCI-X ones which don't cost an arm or a leg though. A good option for not loosing any performance while not loosing your next pay check is to use SATA->PATA adapters for as many drives as you can & then to use a PCI card for the rest of the drives you may have (if you need to use a PCI card, the first devices I would add to it would be the optical drives as they won't be limited by the PCI bus).

moz_21 · Oct 16, 2005

I'd get an RMA if the board is still under warranty.

Lionsault_100 · Oct 16, 2005

XPC64 said:
Here we go.

I have a Tyan K8WE motherboard with 2x246 Opties, and my IDE and Floppy ports both went out on me this morning. I have tried 3 optical drives, 2 FLoppy Drives, 2 optical and 2 floppy cables, and 2 power supplies, but I cannot read or write to either of them.

I can see the CD-RW in Windows, but cannot read or write to it. On the floppy side, I can see it in Windows as well, but can't write to it.

I guess my question is, are there PCI or PCI-X cards that I can use for the floppy and optical drives? I know there are add-on cards for the optical drives, but not the floppy.

If you know of any good ones, feel free to let me know.

Thank you.

you should just use a usb floppy, they are bootable as well, looks like you found out how to get the pata pci cards

XPC64 · Oct 20, 2005

Well, I called Tyan, and they are cross-shipping me a new K8WE, so I hopefully I will have it tomorrow. Thank you.

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