PCs that support only one floppy drive in hardware

[Pete Turnbull]

On Oct 9 2005,  9:52, Scott Stevens wrote:

> 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.

It will work, at least on machines I've tried.  I've had exactly the
same problem as the restr of you -- only one pin for one drive select
on the board, so only one floppy where I need (at least) two.  And the
BIOS behaved once it saw there were two floppies there.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Network Manager
						University of York