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: Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org>
   Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 11:29:07 -0500
     To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
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Allison declared on Sunday 09 October 2005 10:39 am:
  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). 
 I have a few and JDRmicrdevices still sells them. 
They don't list any on their website.  They have ISA floppy controllers, 
and PCI IDE controllers, but no PCI floppy controllers. 
Never seen much of what they sell on the website because they list only
volume sellers there but the hard copy catalog listed them.

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 I guess it's possible that they have existed, but I
can't find any 
reference to anyone actually *selling* them.  Can you come up with a 
link to one? 
Not a problem for me. I have spares.  Maybe they discontined then since 
2004.  Next step if ISA is out is a USB to floppy thing.   

Then again maybe you could just scrounge an older machine that isn't so 
crippled.

Allison