PCs that support only one floppy drive in hardware - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

9 Oct 2005

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Subject: Re: PCs that support only one floppy drive in hardware
   From: "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com>
   Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 09:12:47 -0700
     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
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On 10/9/2005 at 11:04 AM Scott Stevens wrote:

 I've never seen a PCI card that had a floppy
interface on it.  I'm sure
they exist.  Not in my junkbox, however, and I don't have the schematic
diagram for them. 
And there's a good reason for that.  The PCI bus has no access to legacy 8237-type
DMA, so legacy driver code would not work on such a beast. 
Any PCI at the slowest was 33mhz, so PIO will do a floppy no problem.

Allison