PCs that support only one floppy drive in hardware
Steven N. Hirsch
shirsch at adelphia.net
Wed Oct 12 06:47:14 CDT 2005
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>
> On 10/11/2005 at 9:24 AM Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
>
> >How about SCSI floppy drives?
>
> The problem with SCSI floppies is essentially the same--addressing is on
> a sector number basis, not CHS. So the drives have limited format
> recognition capabilities. I've never seen a 5.25' SCSI floppy, though
> at one time SMS marketed a SCSI-to-FDC conversion board.
I'm sitting here looking at a TEAC FD-55GFR 5.25" floppy drive with a
TEAC-branded SCSI daughterboard mounted on it. Picked this thing up for a
buck at a flea market and don't know much about it. Anyone else familiar
with it? I'm not even sure if this is a HD drive.
Steve
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