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From: philb@techbook.com (Phil Biehl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: More than two floppies on PC (adding tape drive)
Message-ID: <1991May10.033425.11031@techbook.com>
Date: 10 May 91 03:34:25 GMT
Reply-To: philb@techbook.com (Phil Biehl)
Organization: TECHbooks - Beaverton, Oregon - Public Access Unix
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I just got a cheap Irwin Model 245A 40 Mbyte tape drive for my AST 286. I 
already have two floppies neither of which I do not want to lose to the tape.

My question is: how does one add more drives to a AT? Add another controller
card? Replace my existing card with one that can handle three or more? Give
up? My AT seems to only recognize two drives (in CMOS RAM) so how do I get 
it to see a third? Do I need to?

Does anyone have a hardware installation manual for the Irwin drive?

Thanks muchly

Phil Biehl


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