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- From: mikey@slic.cts.com (Mike Shirley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Any use for 4-floppy controllers?
- Message-ID: <8magPB5w165w@slic.cts.com>
- Date: 13 Aug 92 15:09:54 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.181957.14694@kosman.uucp>
- Organization: Muth Valley Seismic Control District, San Diego, CA / Port2
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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
-
- I've wondered the same. Specificly, if it will allow use of 3rd
- party back-up software and increase the throughput. I'd like to
- use the CMS DJ-20 without the Y-floppy cable and the driver.sys,
- and the drive-specific back-up software.
-
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