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From: gtoye@supernet.dallas.haus.com (Gene Toye)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: More than 2 floppy drives with 286 AMI BIOS
Summary: How to use 4 drive floppy controller with 286 AMI BIOS
Keywords: FLOPPY BIOS AMI 286 DISK CONTROLLER
Message-ID: <1991Feb3.024949.19302@supernet.dallas.haus.com>
Date: 3 Feb 91 02:49:49 GMT
Organization: Harris Adacom Corporation
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I am trying to helpmy father with a problem on his system.  He has a 4 drive
floppy controller (some clone brand) and a seperate hard disk controller
(WD 1003).  He recently upgraded to a 286 motherboard with an AMI BIOS and
can't seem to determine how to configure the system to have more than two
floppy drives.  He has set the AMI setup for the first two drives and they
work fine.  The third floppy drive is not accesable.

Has anyone tried this setup and made it work?  If so, how.  One idea that 
comes to mind is to tell AMI that no floppy drives are installed.  Would 
this allow the BIOS on the floppy controller to then access all installed
drives?

Thanks for any insight on this problem!
Gene Toye
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