20 Aug
2002
20 Aug
'02
9 a.m.
At 11:21 AM 8/20/02 -0700, you wrote:
I didn't think about using a peripheral card with a floppy
controller; I've got a few kicking around in my "lab" at home. With
my luck, this Evo won't have ISA slots, though. I'll bet there
aren't any PCI cards with floppy controllers... But even if you
put a controller that can handle 5.25" drives, doesn't the BIOS
still need to be set to 360K?
Not if you get a card that has it's own BIOS. Most (all?) of those cards will have
jumpers to set the drive type. A fair number of cards were made like that. They were for
use where you wanted to a 2nd drive controller to a system or for use in the original PC
and PC/XT where there were no CMOS settings.
Joe