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From: cww@ndmath.UUCP (Clarence W. Wilkerson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Three floppies??
Summary: I don't think so for > 2 floppies on WA-2 board
Message-ID: <1266@ndmath.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 89 06:00:12 GMT
References: <8544@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Math. Dept., Univ. of Notre Dame
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I think there are two problems with > 2 floppies
1) Lack of bios support
2) physical connections for the drive select and motor on
   lines on the floppy 34 pin cable. Because of the IBM convention
   of jumpering all floppies as drive 2 and flipping a piece of the cable
   to accomplish this plus separate motor on lines, you have to have an extra
   connector on the floppy controller if you want more than 2 floppies.
   Thus your best bet would be to get another floppy controller,
   eg, wd fox 1002.