PCs that support only one floppy drive in hardware

Subject: Re: PCs that support only one floppy drive in hardware From: Scott Stevens <chenmel at earthlink.net> Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:52:22 -0500 To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at classiccmp.org> 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.