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From: GD.SAR@forsythe.stanford.edu (Sandy Rockowitz)
Subject: Re: Floppies
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Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 21:34:33 GMT
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In article <1991Jun13.130744.12992@watson.ibm.com>,
larrys@watson.ibm.com writes:
>In <1991Jun11.001319.15018@qualcomm.com>, rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
>
>Ron, I don't know about 2.0 (although I could find out if you REALLY want
>to know), but 1.3 performs beautifully when accessing the floppy drive.
>
Larry,

I think you're guilty of a litte hyperbole here. I wish it were so.
The external floppy support is somewhat lacking.

1) When I went from 1.2 to 1.3, my third external floppy (accessed
via EXTDSKDD.SYS) stopped working.  I note that the bug list for
CSD WR5015 contains a reference to a problem with external floppies,
and I'm looking forward to installing the CSD to see if it clears
up the problem.

2) EXTDSKDD.SYS supports 360K, 1.2M, and 720K floppies, but not
1.44!  (Which is the real reason for this note:  Does anyone
know of a way to patch EXTDSKDD.SYS to support 1.44, or of a
replacement?)

3) Lastly, and this is off the top of my head since I don't have
the documentation here, if I recall correctly it is possible to
support only 1 external floppy on AT class machines.  Is this
correct?  If so, is there a way around this?

Sandy Rockowitz
gd.sar@forsythe.stanford.edu
