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From: hollen@eta.megatek.uucp (Dion Hollenbeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: More than 2 floppy drives
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Date: 5 May 89 19:17:04 GMT
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From article <23341@ccicpg.UUCP>, by swonk@ccicpg.UUCP (Glen Swonk):
> 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.
> 
> I haven't seen advertisements for a controller that can
> handle the additional drive or device drivers to support them.
> 
If you have an XT, no problem.  The standard IBM floppy controller has
a db37 external controller for supporting 2 external floppies.  You
merely need to set switches 7 & 8 on motherboard to tell BIOS you have
4 drives.  

The same card will work in an AT, but unless you have a BIOS which supports
4 drives in the setup (no switches on these puppies), you are SOL at
getting the BIOS to recognize the extra two drives.

There is one card called a 'Compaticard' which I have heard supports 4
floppies (maybe even has a driver which will replace BIOS INT 13h)
or you can call JAMECO in Belmont, Ca.  who sells 4 floppy controllers.

You mentioned you had DOS 3.3.  This may cause you a problem when
attempting to use DRIVPARM.  This works in DOS 3.2 but appears broken
in 3.3

	Dion Hollenbeck             (619) 455-5590 x2814
	Megatek Corporation, 9645 Scranton Road, San Diego, CA  92121

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