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From: werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: External 3 1/2" Floppy
Summary: 4 floppies in 1 computer
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Date: 27 Jun 89 06:13:54 GMT
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In article <587@megatek.UUCP>, hollen@zeta.megatek.uucp (Dion Hollenbeck) writes:
> than 2 floppies.  Even though my controller card is set up for 4
> drives, the BIOS will not recognize more than 2.  BTW, anybody know
> of a BIOS which will recognize 4 floppies?
> 
> 
	I'm not sure if this counts. My Wells-American CompuStar is equipped
with 2 3.5" and one each of the 5.25" drives, four in all. The config.sys
file contains the Wells' supplied DISKETTE.SYS and the PCDOS-supplied
DRIVER.SYS.  Together, this, along with the hard drive, takes me to drive F.
	The IBM BIOS mandates that the hard drive be C. However, the
aforementioned device drivers seem to let the additional logical drives
actually represent additional physical drives, but again, without the
CONFIG.SYS entries, those drives are  not recognized. Maybe the answer to
the question is that a true IBM compatible BIOS that recognizes 4 drives
a priori is impossible, but that the little fact doesn't stop people from
actually having four drives through more elaborate schemes...
-- 
	        Craig Werner   (future MD/PhD, 4.5 years down, 2.5 to go)
	     werner@aecom.YU.EDU -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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