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- From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Any use for 4-floppy controllers?
- Message-ID: <Bszp59.4pr@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 20:05:32 GMT
- Article-I.D.: news.Bszp59.4pr
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- kevin@kosman.uucp (Kevin O'Gorman) writes:
- >I keep seeing these HD controllers that include logic for 4 floppy drives.
- >I keep wondering why bother? I thought MS-DOS (what most of these will
- >be used for) only recognized 2 floppies, no matter what logic was actually
- >present.
-
- >Am I wrong? Can one use the 3rd and 4th for something else, like floppy tape?
-
- >Anybody have any idea?
- *----
- The only limitation is that the PC BIOS only supports two floppy
- disk drives. Like everything else not directly supported by the
- PC BIOS, you can still run a device driver and have four floppy
- disk drives.
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- Mike Berger
- Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
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