TEAC FD-55GFR = Quad Density?

[woodelf]

Dave Dunfield wrote:

>>>I'm curious about the comment about second drive support missing. I
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>>am curious why the addition of a proper multiheaded cable doesnt
>>fix this?
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>>they actually dont drive the drive select in the cable?
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>More and more machines are showing up without physical support (ie:
>a select) for drive B: ... I have two Intel P3 board which do not
>drive the B: select (which is very annoying since these are two of
>the best systems for handling oddball formats with Imagedisk).
>
>Floppy drives are disappearing completely from some new machines,
>and I doubt it will be long before the controller disappears along
>with them (if it hasn't started already).
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That I suspect will  still be built into the support chips since it will 
be too much trouble
to remove it. Floppies are now a extra option -- I had to have new 
computer built with one.
Everybody is going to R/W DVD's now..

>Regards,
>Dave
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>
Ben alias woodelf
PS, R/W DVD's don't seem reliable for storage to me -- look how hard it 
is for CD's to write well.