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From: werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Drive controllers
Keywords: disk controller
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Date: 19 Jan 90 04:52:21 GMT
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In article <3058@trantor.harris-atd.com>, wcurtiss@x102c.harris-atd.com (Curtiss WC 67625) writes:
> I am rolling my own system, and have been shopping drive contollers.  Since
> I've decided that I need at least three floppy drives (Mixed, 5 1/4 and
> 3 1/2), I have two choices:  I can get a controller which supports up to
	
	I have a system with 4 floppies: 5.25 360K, 5.25 1.2M, and 2
1.44M 3.5s.  The BIOS has to support 4 floppies. Some don't. As is, DOS
automatically allocates A: and B:.  C: (and D:) are my hard disk.
For the other floppies, they have to be installed as external devices
in the CONFIG.SYS file.  And in my case, they end up being E: and F:.

	(I really once freaked out someone who being used to a Model 25,
and only seeing A:, couldn't figure out what a 'COPY E:*.* F:' was.)
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