> "Is this needed because motherboards no longer include any floppy drive channels?" Not really. As you point out, the lack of floppy controller on modern PC m

> "Is this needed because motherboards no longer include any floppy drive channels?" Not really. As you point out, the lack of floppy controller on modern PC motherboards can be solved with a regular USB floppy drive. The Greaseweazle is an incredibly versatile floppy controller which is able to do raw/low-level reads of practically any known disk format out there, making it a great tool for rescue/archiving and as a one-size-fits-all option. I bought one myself in order to "dump" and preserve about a thousand Amiga disks of my own, many of which contain stuff I created in the 1990s.