PCs that support only one floppy drive in hardware

[Chuck Guzis]

On 10/9/2005 at 11:04 AM Scott Stevens wrote:

>I've never seen a PCI card that had a floppy interface on it.  I'm sure
>they exist.  Not in my junkbox, however, and I don't have the schematic
>diagram for them.

And there's a good reason for that.  The PCI bus has no access to legacy 8237-type DMA, so legacy driver code would not work on such a beast.

Cheers,
Chuck