seems strange. If there's a way of disabling the
floppy portion of the controller, you could try using
an ancillary floppy controller.
Is your cabling correct?
--- Andrew Lynch <lynchaj at yahoo.com> wrote:
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
____________________________________________________________________________________
Be a better friend, newshound, and
know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.
http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ