Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!merch!cpe!hal6000!trsvax!earl From: earl@trsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Looking for a 4 Floppy Drive contro Message-ID: <216100141@trsvax> Date: 11 Sep 89 13:19:00 GMT References: <21829@hodge.UUCP> Lines: 42 Nf-ID: #R:hodge.UUCP:21829:trsvax:216100141:000:1925 Nf-From: trsvax.UUCP!earl Sep 11 08:19:00 1989 /* ---------- "Looking for a 4 Floppy Drive contro" ---------- */ I'm looking for a floppy disk controller card to run in an AT that will handle up to four (4) floppy drives of either the 5.25" (1.2mb) or 3.5" (1.44mb) flavors. If you know of a company that makes/sells such a controller please email me their address/phone number and the model number and price of the card. Thanks, jdm@hodge.cts.com [uunet zardoz crash]!hodge!jdm James D. Murray, Ethnounixologist TEL: (714) 998-7750 Ext. 129 Hodge Computer Research Corporation FAX: (714) 921-8038 1588 North Batavia Street Orange, California 92667 USA ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ You could try Manzanna, they make two types of floppy disk drive multiplexor interface boards that permit you to connect more than two FD's to one machine. They only make boards for 3.5" floppy disk drives. They make both a 720k and a 1.44 meg drive kit. I've only tried the unit with one external 720k unit, and it worked quite well. The instructions state that you can cascade several units together for more than four floppy disk drives. It all depends on how many I/O expansion slots you want to utilize. Tandy sells the 90-2134 720k external drive kit via their Express Order Hardware/Software system. Several other computer stores would likely be able to sell the same items too. *********************************************************************** Earl W. Bollinger @ "You were in the Clone Wars!", said Luke excitedly. "Yes", replied Obi Wan, "I was a DOS programmer. But that was before the dark times, before OS2."