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- From: youngqd@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU (Dean Youngquist)
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- Subject: Re: Any use for 4-floppy controllers?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.202813.11026@leela.cs.orst.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 20:28:13 GMT
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- In article <8magPB5w165w@slic.cts.com> mikey@slic.cts.com (Mike Shirley) writes:
- >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
- You might be wrong about the DOS support for 4 floppies. I have installed
- 4 floppies on one system for someone who wanted to do a lot of disk copying.
- I started with an IBM XT. The IBM XTs all came from the factory with 4 drive
- controllers. Drives C + D were ported out the back of the controller card.
- We put on 2 360K drives as A + B inside the CPU box and attached 2 720K drives
- in an external box. This was back in the '80s right after the 720K drives
- became popular but before the 1.4s were readily available. The hard drive
- ended up as E: .
-
- I now use 386 computer and I would like to have two 1.2 and two 1.44 drives.
- I've been looking for a way to do it but I don't know how I would tell the
- setup program I had 4 drives. It the old XTs we just set the system board
- switches to the setting for 4 drives. Anyone know how I would do this?
-
- Dean
- youngqd@atlantis.cs.orst.edu
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