More than 4 Floppies under DOS (was Re: Merced - and the ol' Unix story)

From: Stephen Dauphin <ai705_at_osfn.org>
Date: Sat Jan 16 13:36:06 1999

On Sat, 16 Jan 1999, Pete Turnbull wrote:

> > *Why we are limited to 2 floppy drives in DOS
>
> Actually, you can have 4, if you have a controller at the secordary floppy
> controller address as well as at the primaryfloppy controller address.

I believe there were 4 floppy cards with or without hd. Jameco or JDR had
them I think, but whether they still do I don't know. Refer to a slightly
older catalog for exact specs and configurations.


                                               -- Stephen Dauphin
Received on Sat Jan 16 1999 - 13:36:06 GMT