PCs that support only one floppy drive in hardware

[Allison]

>
>Subject: Re: PCs that support only one floppy drive in hardware
>   From: Scott Stevens <chenmel at earthlink.net>
>   Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:52:22 -0500
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
>
>One thing I am wondering is if an 8-bit floppy controller card (the ones
>from the PC-XT generation, which didn't have floppy IO on the
>motherboard) could be modified (if needed) and contrived to work in a
>more modern system that still has the ISA bus.  If the particular I/O
>locations are being used, simple cuts and adds could re-direct the I/O
>ports.  This would give the enterprising programmer a 765 controller
>with relevant hardware to plug additional drives into.  The original
>PC-PC/XT controller is fully documented in the TechRef, and even has all
>the cabling in place to support four floppies.


Gee I posted about doing just that.  If the machine has ISA there is no 
need to mod the card.  Just disable (in bios) the mainboard level FDC and
plug in the ISA unit and go.

  Also PCI cards work nice for that.

Allison