Originally Posted by
Loren Pechtel
I've not seen a desktop machine without a floppy controller. They might not have a floppy drive attached to it but they usually leave the controller in because they are occasionally needed.
A quick search on ebay:
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Oh, I've DEFINITELY seen new computers without floppy controllers. I had a giant fiasco with an HP where it had a RAID controller, but Windows XP's setup only allows you to load the RAID driver during setup from a floppy disk, and it wasn't taking my USB....
That said, just because it has a floppy controller doesn't mean the old software (old Colorado Backup, etc) will be able to access the drive if it isn't designed to talk through the XP (etc) kernel.