9 Oct
2005
9 Oct
'05
8:14 a.m.
On Sunday 09 October 2005 10:00, Scott Stevens wrote:
On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:25:29 -0400
Allison <ajp166 at bellatlantic.net> wrote:
This doesn't work well when you have a recent enough machine that it
doesn't have ISA slots. Heck, I've got UNIX boxes from 1996 (getting
nearly on topic now) that have PCI but no ISA slots.
Though, I'll have to say that I've never seen a PCI card with a floppy
controller on it (well, um, other than the Catweasel, of course).
Pat
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A simpler way to beat the only one floppy
problem. Find a PCI
floppy/IDE card and disable the onboard controller. Simple fix.
I used that fix at work to solve a problem mother board that lost
all floppy control due to lightining/power transient. Since
everything else worked and I needed to get to other problem systems
that was a good fix.
Allison
An even better 'fix' would be to disable just the floppy interface on
the motherboard and use an ISA SCSI interface (i.e. a 1542) of the
generation when there were versions with a floppy interface onboard