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From: perryh@marie.uucp (Perry Hutchison)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: [REPOST] FDC DRIVER
Keywords: FDC floppy device driver
Message-ID: <1993Mar4.103308.24945@marie.uucp>
Date: 4 Mar 93 10:33:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: marie.1993Mar4.103308.24945
References: <1993Feb20.082828.16004@netcom.com> <1993Feb25.094348.23685@marie.uucp> <C30zxt.CJD@sugar.neosoft.com>
Organization: St Mary's Academy, Portland Oregon
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In <C30zxt.CJD@sugar.neosoft.com> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
+ In article <1993Feb25.094348.23685@marie.uucp> perryh@marie.uucp (Perry Hutchison) writes:
+ > Of course, some controller manufacturers have since done the obvious,
+ > and provided support for two hard drives plus all four floppy drives on
+ > a single card.
+ Have any done the obvious and provided support for 4 hard drives on an MFM
+ controller, and 7 on an ESDI controller? I'd take that over extra floppies,
+ myself.
Not to my knowledge, one factor being that most machines' ROM BIOS will
only support two hard drives (that being the maximum number ever blessed
by Big Blue); and even if a particular BIOS would take more than two I
don't know that stock DOS would cooperate. (Some BIOS, and some DOS
versions, will support 4 floppies since the original IBM PC and XT did.)
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