Two 3.5" floppy drives possible?

I am a system builder and one of my clients needs to have two 3.5" floppy drives in his new system. We are using the 865PE Neo2-PLS motherboard. The BIOS appears to support two floppy drives and we have configured it for two floppy drives. We have been unable to make this work. All we get is the drive at the end of the cable (after the twist) as drive A (even when booting into DOS from drive A. We have tried on two seperate 865PE Neo2-PLS motherboards. The floppy drives have been tested and are OK. We have used several different floppy cables. Any ideas?

Not much info on this.
There are internal 3.5" floppy/card reader drives available that connect to a motherboard USB header.
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