JRA102@PSUVM.BITNET (Jim Achuff) (04/18/89)
Has anybody out there tried sucessfully to use more than two floppys in a 1000TX? PC-Tools tells me that I can handle up to drive E, so I'm thinking of adding another drive. Will it work without another controller? Thanks for any help. --Jim =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- | | | | James R. Achuff | Love the sinner, despise the sin | | 129 Beaver Hall | | | University Park, PA 16802 | | | (814)-862-5583 |=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-| | |Have a good day, and a nice forever!| | BITNET: JRA102@PSUVM.BITNET |=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-| | ARPANET: JRA102@PSUVM.PSU.EDU | My opinions are my own, and if you | | | don't like them, tough cookies!! | =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
ugkamins@sunybcs.uucp (John Kaminski) (04/19/89)
In article <82092JRA102@PSUVM> JRA102@PSUVM.BITNET (Jim Achuff) writes: >Has anybody out there tried sucessfully to use more than two floppys in a >1000TX? PC-Tools tells me that I can handle up to drive E, so I'm thinking of >adding another drive. Will it work without another controller? Drive letters in something like PC-Tools just digs out what was in your CONFIG.SYS, or E: if you didn't specify it there (I think the command is maxdrive=<letter> or lastdrive=<letter> or something like that). Don't for- get that you can have vdisks, subst "disks," hard disks, networks that look like disks at the command line level, and so on. If you wish to add another floppy, I believe you would have to find a controller for it. Do yourself a favor, though. Get yourself a hard disk and enjoy the speed and centralization that it provides. Don't get another floppy. The only reason I could see for having more than two floppies would be for disk copying, in which case I suppose you would want 2 each of 1.44M and 1.2M drives, since that would cover all cases (I *think* 1.44M drives can R/W 720K -- can't they? I know for sure that 1.2M drives *should* be able to R/W both 1.2M and 360K)