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- From: venaas@siri.unit.no (Stig Venaas)
- Subject: Re: Any use for 4-floppy controllers?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.075711.28371@ugle.unit.no>
- Sender: news@ugle.unit.no (NetNews Administrator)
- Organization: University of Trondheim
- References: <1992Aug12.181957.14694@kosman.uucp> <8magPB5w165w@slic.cts.com> <1992Aug26.202813.11026@leela.cs.orst.edu>
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 07:57:11 GMT
- Lines: 34
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- In article <1992Aug26.202813.11026@leela.cs.orst.edu> youngqd@atlantis.CS.ORST.EDU (Dean Youngquist) writes:
- >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
-
- A friend of mine has got a 4 floppy controller. He uses 2 1.2 and 2
- 1.44 Kb drives and it works fine. He's got a 386.
-
- Stig
-
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- Stig (venaas@siri.unit.no)
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