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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!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!uuneo!sugar!peter From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: [REPOST] FDC DRIVER Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900 Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 12:08:41 GMT Message-ID: <C3KKEI.1t7@sugar.neosoft.com> Keywords: FDC floppy device driver References: <C3E4nx.60o@sugar.neosoft.com> <1993Mar5.215340.21721@gandalf.ca> <731520543rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org> Lines: 15 In article <731520543rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org> rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel) writes: > The 174X BIOS, for example, can provide BIOS support for more than two > disks, if I understood the docs correctly. Well, it would be more than a trifle odd if it didn't, since it's a high performance full-SCSI controller. The point I'm getting at is that the old, slow, MFM *interface* defined up to 4 drives per controller, and ESDI seven, but none of the PC manufacturers bothered to implement this (despite the fact that all they had to do was add two more active control lines to the cable!)... -- Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>. `-_-' Oletko halannut suttasi tänään? 'U` Tarjoilija, tämä ateria elää vielä.