PCI floppy controller

[Warner Losh]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2022, 12:25 PM Grant Taylor via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> On 4/22/22 11:46 AM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
> > By the time there were PCI Adaptec cards, there was no longer a floppy
> > controller on them that I ever saw. As others have pointed out,
> > though, it would need special drivers and/or BIOS support because
> > PCI devices mixed poorly with ISA DMA that the floppy was built on.
>
> I'd swear that I've used a PCI Adaptec card with a floppy controller.
> 2942 comes to mind.
>

I thought the 2942 had 2 SCSI channels, I thought. Google can't find a
definitive answer but all the 2940 cards on eBay didn't have obviously
unstuck parts for a floppy. The aha 1540 did...

Warner

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