Hi,
I am building a test station using an old 486 ISA only computer to test
floppy disk drives and old ST-506/ST-412 style hard disk drives.
The computer seems to work OK and has a Western Digital ST-506 MFM hard disk
controller with a FDC on the card (IO address $1F0).
To help with testing floppy drives, I thought I would add a secondary FDC
however that is turning out to be much more difficult than I planned.
It seems there are drivers required to make floppy drives attached to the
secondary controller appear as drive letters under MS-DOS.
I searched around a bit and found SDRIVE.SYS which refuses to acknowledge
any of the other FDCs I place in the computer at the secondary address (IO
address $170).
There are some references to a DC2.SYS program but I cannot find it anywhere
online.
http://www.seasip.info/VintagePC/floppies.html
Does anyone know how to add multiple FDCs to a PC so I can have multiple
floppy disk drives?
Of course, the Compaticard IV would be nice but those are very expensive and
almost unobtainable these days. I have a Compaticard I which "sort of"
works but the drive gives errors every other time I access it.
Thanks in advance for any help -- especially if someone could send me or
tell me where I could find the DC2.SYS files.
Andrew Lynch