7 Oct
2005
7 Oct
'05
9:51 p.m.
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Actually, I am still slowly getting over my long painful struggle to get
two floppy drives enabled on a Dell Optiplex system. There's support
for a second floppy in the BIOS but it appears the hardware support is
entirely missing. I had to just do away with the 3-1/2" disk to get a
5-1/4" disk installed in one of my (many, since I get them for < $5 all
kitted out with Pentium III processors) beloved (!!??!!) Optiplex boxes.
Was there THAT much savings in not including hardware support for two
floppies, DELL? Why not patch settings for the second drive out of the
BIOS so we don't pound our heads against the wall trying??
I'm curious about the comment about second drive support missing. I
am curious
why the addition of a proper multiheaded cable doesnt
fix this?
they actually dont drive the drive select in the cable?
Just curious