PCs that support only one floppy drive in hardware

[Allison]

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>Subject: Re: PCs that support only one floppy drive in hardware
>   From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
>   Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:12:47 -0700
>     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
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>On 10/9/2005 at 11:04 AM Scott Stevens wrote:
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>>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.

Any PCI at the slowest was 33mhz, so PIO will do a floppy no problem.


Allison