Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!purdue!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cica!ctrsol!ginosko!uunet!cs.dal.ca!iotek!garyb From: garyb@iotek.UUCP (Gary Burrell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: adding a third floppy (3.5") Message-ID: <346@mars.iotek.UUCP> Date: 14 Aug 89 12:47:48 GMT Reply-To: garyb@iotek.UUCP (Gary R. Burrell) Organization: IOTEK Inc Lines: 36 I'd like to add a 3.5" floppy to my 8mhz pc clone. I currenly have two 5.25" floppys run of a multi i/o card (japanese) and a miniscribe 3650 hd run of a WD controller. I would like to add the 3.5" floppy as a third floppy without removing one of my other floppys. My controller can only handle 2 drives so I will have to buy another controller card. Some questions I have: Can you have two floppy controllers in a PC (I don't want to remove my multi i/o card if posible since it contains my 2 serial ports and my parallel port). How is this done? any particular problems? Will I have to by another i/o card (minus floppy) and a 4 floppy controller card. Is it possible to have two boot floppys. I would like to be able to boot on the odd occasion from the 3.5" floppy but I can live with it, if it is not possible. Any thing else I need to know. Please reply via email to garyb@iotek.uucp Thanks Gary <<<<<<******>>>>>> Gary R. Burrell, Iotek Inc, |*| E-Mail: garyb@iotek.uucp |*| 1127 Barrington St., Suite 100, |*| Fax: (902)420-0674 |*| Halifax, N.S., B3H 2P8, Canada |*| Phone: (902)420-1890 |*| Damm it Jim I'm a Doctor not a Computer Scientist! *************************************