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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!usc!sdd.hp.com!ncr-sd!ncrcae!ncrhub2!ncrgw2!psinntp!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: [REPOST] FDC DRIVER Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 00:43:06 GMT Message-ID: <C3E4nx.60o@sugar.neosoft.com> Keywords: FDC floppy device driver References: <1993Feb25.094348.23685@marie.uucp> <C30zxt.CJD@sugar.neosoft.com> <1993Mar4.103308.24945@marie.uucp> Lines: 17 In article <1993Mar4.103308.24945@marie.uucp> perryh@marie.uucp (Perry Hutchison) writes: > Not to my knowledge, one factor being that most machines' ROM BIOS will > only support two hard drives (that being the maximum number ever blessed > by Big Blue); and even if a particular BIOS would take more than two I > don't know that stock DOS would cooperate. That wouldn't stop UNIX or PICK or Netware from taking advantage of them. I have also been told that the SMS OMTI line of controllers included some that supported four drives on one controller, and supported MFM and ESDI concurrently. Does anyone know more about this controller? Is it still available? What sort of driver support does it need? -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään? 'U` Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.