4 floppy disk drives on a PC?

[Bruce Lane]

	Ahhh... Pardon? DOS doesn't support USB ports.

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On 16-Jan-05 at 08:33 Computer Collector Newsletter wrote:

>If your PC has a USB port, then just use USB drives.  It should work --
>for
>example on my "daily driver" PC, I have a four-in-one card gadget.  I can't
>think of why the PC would care whether the drives are floppies or
>otherwise.
>
>--- Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:
>
>> 
>> I know we've discussed this before but the right Google search terms are
>> eluding me.
>> 
>> Is it possible to get 4 floppy drives onto a PC?  If so, how?  If I stick
>> two controllers in the PC and configure one with a different base address
>> and interrupt (assuming I can find a card that allows me to do this) will
>> DOS automatically recognize the second controller and extend the drive
>> letters C: and D: to the drives on that card?
>> 
>> -- 
>> 
>> Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer
>> Festival
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