Multiple floppies in one system?

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Wed Feb 27 17:02:41 2002

Dave,

   I started putting together a similar system. I'm using a Compaticard IV
in mine. You can set it to be the second floppy controller and it will
handle four drives in addition to the two on the built-in floppy
controller. You can also boot from any drive on the Compaticard. In
addition, it can handle 8" drives and has a port for external drives. If
that's not enough I believe that you can also add MORE compaticards to the
same system and add four more drives per card!

    Joe

At 12:22 PM 2/27/02 -0800, you wrote:
>I'm putting together an old 486 system, one of whose main purposes will be to
>read/write floppies of several formats. Like 5.25" 360K, 720K, 1.2M,
RX50, etc.,
>and 3.5" 720K and 1.44M. I also want to be able to copy RX50s disk to
disk on
>the appropriate drive type.
>
>So I figure it'll take 4 drives (or maybe 3 drives where one is a 3.5"/5.25"
>combo). All of these would be in one enclosure.
>
>The question is, how to do this without having to unplug/plug drives every
>time you want to make a configuration change? It would be nice to just be
>able to throw a switch or two to re-configure. Not having to get into the
>enclosure would be nice, too.
>
>I've thought of two ways to do it, but I'm not sure they'll work, or if there
>might not be a better way.
>
>1) Plug all the drives into one control cable and switch on/off the power
> to the drives to select them.
>2) Plug all the drives into one control cable and select the drives by
> switching a control line on the control cable.
>
>Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Dave
>--
>David C. Jenner
>djenner_at_earthlink.net
>
Received on Wed Feb 27 2002 - 17:02:41 GMT