4 floppy disk drives on a PC?

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Sun Jan 16 10:33:04 CST 2005


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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