Adding another floppy (Was: TEAC FD-55GFR = Quad Density?

[Fred Cisin]

On Fri, 7 Oct 2005, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> I suppose one could install an IDE LS120 as a second drive or just plug in one of those brain-dead USB drives  (I've seen a USB driver for DOS somewhere).

... or a SCSI "Floptical" (also handles 1.4M),
or MicroSolutions "Backpack" external parallel port floppy (my 2.8m one
has been pretty reliable),
or a second floppy controller (at an alternate address if you can't fully
disable the internal one),
or a manual toggle switch on the drive select lines (OK for drives that
you don't use often, such as 3" or 3.25"),
there were software controlled drive select switches available for adding
some of the floppy port tape drives - some of those CAN be used to switch
additional floppies.


NOTE: MS-DOS is not happy about attempts to have more than 26 drive
letters (although at least one earlier version supported up to 63)