Second Disk Controller in an IBM AT clone

John Plocher plocher at uport.UUCP
Mon Jul 11 12:38:08 AEST 1988


In article <1302 at ssc.UUCP> fyl at ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) writes:
>In article <6895 at cup.portal.com>, walt_waldo_novinger at cup.portal.com writes:
>> I have four floppy-type devices (1.2MB, 360K, 3.5" 720K, and tape) which
>> I would like to have on-line simultaneously.
>
>You should be able to install a 4 floppy controller and a separate
>winchester controller.  At least I hope so as I have them on order.

Note that with Microport Unix as of 286 version V/AT 2.3 (and 2.4 when
released), as well as V/386 version 2.2 (and 3.0 when released) will
not support more than 2 floppy disks.

  -John Plocher



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