> > In fact, I've always found the limitations of DOS and PCs curious. Does
> > anyone know why:
> > *They refuse to boot from anything but A: or C:
> > *DOS FDISK refuses to create more than 1 primary partition
> > *DOS can't find an ATAPI cd-rom without a driver, even though it's an IDE
> > device
> Pass.
> > *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.
> Each controller can only have two drives because of a silly hardware setup
> chosen by IBM.
But soon after that, Hardwarepatches (and BIOS versions) where available
to connect again 4 Drives to a PC with one controller (Or if you don't want
to modify, buy a third party solution). I have still 4 FD drives on my
PC-XT via one FD controller.
Gruss
H.
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
Received on Mon Jan 18 1999 - 09:30:57 GMT