neal@polyslo.UUCP (Neal Pollack) (01/10/88)
****** NOP line for Mail-Compactors ***** We have a large number of PC-AT compatibles that came with a 1.2 Meg diskette drive and an Irwin 20 Meg tape backup where diskette drive 'B' should be. The Irwin tape units look like a floppy disk drive to the PC's disk controller. We wish to be able to use 360K drives (i.e. have two floppies + tape) on the machine. Since the disk controller is a fixed disk, floppy disk combination unit, and supports only two of each, what can be done. If our controller supports drives 'A' and 'B' as floppies, and drives 'C' and 'D' as fixed disks, I suppose I need a second controller that can have a floppy disk as 'E'. Is there such a controller that can co-exist with another disk controller on one machine. Does anyone have any creative ideas? -- | Neal S. Pollack | ...!ihnp4!csun!polyslo!npollack | | Computer Systems Lab | ...!{csustan,csun,sdsu}!polyslo!npollack | | Cal Poly State Univ. | ...!ucbvax!voder!polyslo!npollack | | San Luis Obispo, CA 93407 | Voice: (805)-756-2147 |