PCs that support only one floppy drive in hardware

[Scott Stevens]

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:25:29 -0400
Allison <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> wrote:

> 
> A simpler way to beat the only one floppy problem.  Find a PCI
> floppy/IDE card and disable the onboard controller.  Simple fix.
> 
> I used that fix at work to solve a problem mother board that lost all
> floppy control due to lightining/power transient.  Since everything
> else worked and I needed to get to other problem systems that was a
> good fix.
> 
> Allison
> 

An even better 'fix' would be to disable just the floppy interface on
the motherboard and use an ISA SCSI interface (i.e. a 1542) of the
generation when there were versions with a floppy interface onboard
(from systems that had NO 'AT Hard Disk Controler' hardware in them at
all back in the era when '286 motherboards didn't have onboard disk
I/O.)  In fact, I have at least one such a card here and should give
that a try.  (added benefit would be having SCSI I/O in the system)