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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uunet!amdahl!JUTS!zombie!tjw00 From: tjw00@zombie.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Tom Wye) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: [REPOST] FDC DRIVER Keywords: FDC floppy device driver Message-ID: <84kT02pA39fw01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> Date: 5 Mar 93 21:19:43 GMT References: <1993Feb25.094348.23685@marie.uucp> <C30zxt.CJD@sugar.neosoft.com> <1993Mar4.103308.24945@marie.uucp> <C3E4nx.60o@sugar.neosoft.com> Sender: netnews@ccc.amdahl.com Lines: 16 In article <C3E4nx.60o@sugar.neosoft.com>, peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes: |> In article <1993Mar4.103308.24945@marie.uucp> perryh@marie.uucp (Perry Hutchison) writes: |> > 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. |> |> That wouldn't stop UNIX or PICK or Netware from taking advantage of them. |> |> I have also been told that the SMS OMTI line of controllers included some |> that supported four drives on one controller, and supported MFM and ESDI |> concurrently. Does anyone know more about this controller? Is it still |> available? What sort of driver support does it need? So I missed the first article, but MS-DOS 5.0 at least can handle more than two floppy disk drives. I currently have two 5 1/2 and two 3 1/2 drives configured.