PCs that support only one floppy drive in hardware

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that Chuck Guzis may have mentioned these words:
>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.

I've seen several BIOSs can be set up for that - you can set the IRQ & DMA 
on a per-slot basis.

However, I'll admit that it's a crapshoot... you'd want to make sure that 
the mobo supports what you want to do. ;-) I'm also *not* going to say that 
WindersXP will actually support it, as you *might* have to disable 
Plug-N-Pray to get it to work.

Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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