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From: ogrady@ECN.PURDUE.EDU (Michael P. O'Grady)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Adding 3rd & 4th Floppies in OS/2
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Date: 21 Jun 91 18:06:46 GMT
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All:

I am new to this OS/2 thing, and I have a few questions...  (I don't actually
have OS/2, I'm a student and saving my $$$ to get it :-(  )

I have a 1.44 meg a: drive and a 1.2 meg b: drive.  I have been thinking about
getting an "add on" floppy controller so I can use my extra 360K as drive
C:. (of course moving my HD's to D: and E:)  I understand they have built in
brains on the card.  This is OK for dos, but will they work with os/2 as well?
I have a limited budget, (I just bought the computer and then had to
turn around and buy an Air Conditioner = Me Poor)  so I dont want to spend
the $50 or so dollars and then have to pull the card because it makes os/2
puke.  I don't use the 360K very much, but it is handy for giving files to
people that refuse to joing the ninety's :-) (A JOKE!!  I had 360's until
about 2 months ago!!)

In Brief, I would like a secondary floppy controller to allow me to use my
360K (and especially the possibility of adding the newly supported 2.88 mg
drives) with dos *and* os/2.  Is this possible?


Names and numbers of manufacturers and dealers especially welcome.

Other pertinent info:  MYLEX 486/25 Eisa motherboard, BIG tower case (11 billion
drive bays), Herc mono card (VGA will probably come before os2), Seagate
st22 RLL HD/FL controller, 65 M st277, 32M st238, 6Meg ram (4 on motherboard,
2 on an old TALLTREE AT memory board), gameblaster card. etc...

Thanx a meg!
MOg

P.S. Reply here or in email.  Both are acceptable to me.

PPS:  Special thanx to the IBMers who like to shed light on os/2.  I try
      not to follow the adage that "No good deed will ever go unpunished."


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