On 10/7/2005 at 9:51 PM jim stephens wrote:
   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 
 
I don't believe so--Dell sells the Optiplex floppy with a formed cable as a single
unit.  Here's a photo:
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/images/products/large/340-8737.jpg
While the second floppy select probably exists on some pin in the support chipset, I
don't think that Dell ever intended that more than one floppy would be used and so
probably never wired the header for it.
I suppose one could install an IDE LS120 as a second drive or just plug in one of those
brain-dead USB drives  (I've seen a USB driver for DOS somewhere).
Cheers,
Chuck