18 Jan
1999
18 Jan
'99
1:30 a.m.
In fact,
I've always found the limitations of DOS and PCs curious. Does
anyone know why:
*They refuse to boot from anything but A: or C:
*DOS FDISK refuses to create more than 1 primary partition
*DOS can't find an ATAPI cd-rom without a driver, even though it's an IDE
device
Pass.
> *Why we are limited to 2 floppy drives in DOS Actually, you can have 4, if you have a controller at
the secordary floppy
controller address as well as at the primaryfloppy controller address.
Each controller can only have two drives because of a silly hardware setup
chosen by IBM.
But soon after that, Hardwarepatches (and BIOS versions) where available
to connect again 4 Drives to a PC with one controller (Or if you don't want
to modify, buy a third party solution). I have still 4 FD drives on my
PC-XT via one FD controller.
Gruss
H.
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK