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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!torn!nott!hobbit.gandalf.ca!dperks From: dperks@gandalf.ca (Dave Perks) Subject: Re: [REPOST] FDC DRIVER Message-ID: <1993Mar5.215340.21721@gandalf.ca> Keywords: FDC floppy device driver Organization: Gandalf Data Ltd. References: <1993Feb25.094348.23685@marie.uucp> <C30zxt.CJD@sugar.neosoft.com> <1993Mar4.103308.24945@marie.uucp> <C3E4nx.60o@sugar.neosoft.com> Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 21:53:40 GMT Lines: 20 In <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. OS/2 2.1 beta looks for two hard drive controllers, and reads the geometry from the drives if they are IDEs. It might also get info from the partition tables. I haven't verified this. I think it also notices two floppy controllers -- I plan to test this since it would be nice using both floppy drives simultaneously. -- Dave Perks | dperks@gandalf.ca | 73230.2156@compuserve.com Gandalf Data Limited | TEL 1-613-723-6500 x8765 | (not checked very often) Nepean, Ontario, Canada | FAX 1-613-226-1717 |