P4I-845PEISA Can't Get Second Floppy Drive to Work

In article <bp7uia$qi2$1@bob.news.rcn.net>, billy_bat DeleteThis @really_hotmail.com
says...
 > You aren't missing a thing. It doesn't support more than one floppy.

Good lord, that's monstrous. I naturally assumed that *all*
floppy controllers support at least two drives, as this has
been the industry standard almost forever. They made no attempt
to point out this serious deviation from standard. Bring me
the jerk-off responsible for this!

 > Installing Windows 3.11?

No. 3.11 had a serious bug that caused a lot of crashes.
I use 3.10 on rare occasion, but the bulk of the software I
run either is pure DOS or will run under Win98.

This was intended to be an engineering computer. My EPROM
burner interface card (DOS) software is on 5.25". Yes I made
a 3.5" copy, but it took a computer with two drives to do it.

I also have to support legacy systems that are not capable of
3.5" drives. Upgrading these systems is problematic because
of proprietary hardware, software that will not run with cache
or buffered UARTs, etc.

Maybe if I disable the onboard controller and plug in an old
floppy card. Should be some in the junkpile.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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"Ol' Duffer" <ReplyTo DeleteThis @TheNewsGroup.net> wrote in message
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 > In article <bp7uia$qi2$1@bob.news.rcn.net>, billy_bat DeleteThis @really_hotmail.com
 > says...
  > > You aren't missing a thing. It doesn't support more than one floppy.
 >
 > Good lord, that's monstrous. I naturally assumed that *all*
 > floppy controllers support at least two drives, as this has
 > been the industry standard almost forever. They made no attempt
 > to point out this serious deviation from standard. Bring me
 > the jerk-off responsible for this!
 >
  > > Installing Windows 3.11?
 >
 > No. 3.11 had a serious bug that caused a lot of crashes.
 > I use 3.10 on rare occasion, but the bulk of the software I
 > run either is pure DOS or will run under Win98.
 >
 > This was intended to be an engineering computer. My EPROM
 > burner interface card (DOS) software is on 5.25". Yes I made
 > a 3.5" copy, but it took a computer with two drives to do it.
 >
 > I also have to support legacy systems that are not capable of
 > 3.5" drives. Upgrading these systems is problematic because
 > of proprietary hardware, software that will not run with cache
 > or buffered UARTs, etc.
 >
 > Maybe if I disable the onboard controller and plug in an old
 > floppy card. Should be some in the junkpile.

I figured that there was a real reason. An older friend of my parents just
passed away, and he was an avid birdwatcher. All of his logs were on 5.25"
floppies, and his widow asked if i could do anything with them. Fortunately
I still had a drive in the old stack of stuff. Amazing what you can need.
And just think, many manufacturers are starting to abandon floppies, and
even ps/2 keyboard and mouse jacks.
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