PCs that support only one floppy drive in hardware

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Sunday 09 October 2005 10:00, Scott Stevens wrote:
> 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

This doesn't work well when you have a recent enough machine that it 
doesn't have ISA slots.  Heck, I've got UNIX boxes from 1996 (getting 
nearly on topic now) that have PCI but no ISA slots.

Though, I'll have to say that I've never seen a PCI card with a floppy 
controller on it (well, um, other than the Catweasel, of course).

Pat
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