Multiple floppies in one system?

Well SOB - they still sell the MCT 8 bit 4 floppy controller - about 1/5th of what it used to cost in 85...here's a link to it: http://www.jdr.com/interact/item.asp?itemno=MCT-FDC-HD4 => -----Original Message----- => From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org => [mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of David C. Jenner => Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 2:22 PM => To: Classic Computer Mailing List => Subject: Multiple floppies in one system? => => => I'm putting together an old 486 system, one of whose main => purposes will be to => read/write floppies of several formats. Like 5.25" 360K, 720K, => 1.2M, RX50, etc., => and 3.5" 720K and 1.44M. I also want to be able to copy RX50s => disk to disk on => the appropriate drive type. => => So I figure it'll take 4 drives (or maybe 3 drives where one is => a 3.5"/5.25" => combo). All of these would be in one enclosure. => => The question is, how to do this without having to unplug/plug => drives every => time you want to make a configuration change? It would be nice => to just be => able to throw a switch or two to re-configure. Not having to => get into the => enclosure would be nice, too. => => I've thought of two ways to do it, but I'm not sure they'll => work, or if there => might not be a better way. => => 1) Plug all the drives into one control cable and switch on/off the power => to the drives to select them. => 2) Plug all the drives into one control cable and select the drives by => switching a control line on the control cable. => => Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated. => => Thanks, => Dave => -- => David C. Jenner => djenner(a)earthlink.net