I used to do a lot of work with older systems booting to the network
from a floppy drive.  I replaced most of the floppy drives with
compact flash cards and IDE adaptors, but never needed to worry about
bios updates.

Will your motherboards flash from hard drives?  (ie, compactflash in IDE mode)

Good luck in your search!  The floppy drive interface is very low
level.  I imagine a floppy drive could be emulated using a PIC,
though, but good luck digging that up and getting it to work.

If you do, you'll have a nice niche product that I expect would sell
pretty well for several years, if not decades.

-Adam

On 6/14/07, Mark Hanchey <mworks@modworks.net> wrote:
> At 03:32 PM 6/14/2007, you wrote:
> >Newer motherboards (the ones I've used) support flashing Bios from
> >windows or USB memory sticks.
> >
> >I haven't seen an SD to floppy adaptor other than those you've
> >mentioned, but I suspect that time and money wise you're better off
> >getting a real floppy drive and a floppy disk.
> >
> >-Adam
>
> Yeah the problem is I'm working with a lot of older hardware , some
> of which doesn't
> even support usb.
>
> mark
>
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