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From: sunesen@iesd.dk (Peter Sunesen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: more than 2 floppy on a AT
Message-ID: <1800@iesd.dk>
Date: 4 May 89 22:18:31 GMT
Reply-To: sunesen@iesd.dk (Peter Sunesen)
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Aalborg University, Denmark
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> Has anyone out there had experience installing and using
> more than 2 floppy drives? Currently I have (1) 1.2M and
> (1) 1.44M floppys. I would like to have (2) of each.

You can do to things:
1: bye a controler to 4 drives.
2: bye a simple switch and do some work.

1: 
When you do this thing be soure that you get a controler for a AT
becouse, I have tryede one on a 16 MHz 386, and it was getting werry
hot. If this is the solution you will also run into troble with with
that your harddisk will be E: F: and so on, witch not will work on
some programs. About controler, I have heard that Western Digital make one.

2: 
This the most less expensive, and it is the one I use.
You take a knife and cot the drive select to the B: and C: drive, and
connect the B: to a switch. from the switch you will have to drive
select one to B: and one to C:, witch you can controll from the
switch. You will then have 3 drives running on a 2 drive controler.
The only thing you nead is a program witch change the Bios setup for
the floppy drives, witch you can get at me. a solution to get more
than 2 drives for less than 5 dollars.

cabling:
                C:  6 --cot      /------ 6 B: drive floppy nr 2
from controler  B: 14 ------switch ---- 14 B: drive floppy nr 1

Be avare of that the floppy 2 most be selectet on the floppy to C:
becouse it is trou here the signal is comming.
If you do solution 2 don't blayme me if you do somthing wrong becouse
I now it is working.

Peter Sunesen