Uncreative Labs

Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 488 Location: pennsylvanai

I have been using a system as a test bed and decided to copy some 5.25 floppies
I dug out an old " universal" floppy cable and hooked it up
to my surprise there is NO provision for 2 floppies.
I will just use the 1.2m drive for a while
BUT is there a work-around ( besides using a different system?
this a gatewat P500 "warm springs" Intel mb.
phoenix bios

Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 594 Location: Western NC

Most newer systems (i.e.---pretty much anything without an AT P/S connection) only support 1 floppy in the BIOS, so even if you had one of the older "combo" floppies (with both a 3.5 and 5.25" drives), it would still only support one of them...

Joined: 22 Apr 2007 Posts: 264 Location: Ohio/USA

I have a dual Ppro ATX system that has a 3.5" and 5.25" drive, works fine (my server).

Pretty sure P2/P3/K7 systems supported dual floppies.

Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 274 Location: USA

i got a combo drive in my p4 coputer (i was out of 3.5 inch ones at the time) intel mobo can only do one drive would an add on pci card work? cause i realy could use a 5.25 floppy drive. with combo drives it always picks the "a:' drive, evan if its the wrong size

Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 488 Location: pennsylvanai

I pit in a 1.2 driv3e and used it to make images of my 360k disks
the ms-dos 6.2 upgrade (12 floppies) and the MS-works ( 8 floppies) all copied properly
trouble is, I put the drive on top of a plastic floppy case and kept trying to slide off.
BTW I use DXP as it is
1)picky does not tolerate errors.
2)compresses data
3)includes sub-dirs
4) unlike wimage does not need software to extract