PCs that support only one floppy drive in hardware

[Chuck Guzis]

On 10/9/2005 at 7:10 PM Pete Turnbull wrote:
>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.

If you've got an ISA slot (current Optiplexes do not), better to get an aftermarket ISA floppy card that supports high density, rather than the original PC-XT version, which will not support the high density 1.44/1.2 media.  There were many such cards, most with their own BIOS support (you can probably disable that if the card is well-behaved).

Cheers,
Chuck