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From: mep@stb.uucp (???)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 2 disk controllers?
Message-ID: <1990Mar4.220439.24781@stb.uucp>
Date: 4 Mar 90 22:04:39 GMT
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In article <37589@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> hchen@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (H. Chen) writes:
>In article <1640065@hpspcoi.HP.COM> mlau@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Mel Lau) writes:
>>????
>>What is the problem ??
>>You can have a floppy disk controller and a hard disk controller.
>>You are probably thinking that you can not have 2 hard disk controllers.
>>
>>*Mel
>
>I am not the person who asked this question.  But I am curious to get
>the answer.  And I have a question related to this.
>
>My friend have a two floppy disk drivers, both for 5.25" disk.  I helped
>to add a harddisk with a controller card.  It works.  Now, if he wants to
>replace one of his 5.25" disk driver into a 3.5" one, does he need another
>disk driver controller card for 3.5 driver?  (Someone suggested here that 
>simply replacing a 5.25" drive with a 3.5" one will only give 360k capacity 
>for the 3.5" drive.)
>
>So, can we have 2 floppy disk controller cards?
>
>Thank you in advance for giving the answers.
>
>--che

You failed to mention the type of machine... that is AT, XT or ??? I
just installed a 1.4meg 3.5" drive on my AT. My system has an NCL
Hard disk/Floppy disk controller with two hard disks and two
floppies attached. I now have a 1.2 meg 5.25 and a 1.4meg 3.5
working flawlessly... bite my tongue... It was plug & play since my
bios supports both.

marty