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Re: 2 disk controllers?

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From: H. Chen
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 1990 17:34
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In article <1640065@hpspcoi.HP.COM> mlau@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Mel Lau) writes:
>????
>What is the problem ??
>You can have a floppy disk controller and a hard disk controller.
>You are probably thinking that you can not have 2 hard disk controllers.
>
>*Mel

I am not the person who asked this question.  But I am curious to get
the answer.  And I have a question related to this.

My friend have a two floppy disk drivers, both for 5.25" disk.  I helped
to add a harddisk with a controller card.  It works.  Now, if he wants to
replace one of his 5.25" disk driver into a 3.5" one, does he need another
disk driver controller card for 3.5 driver?  (Someone suggested here that 
simply replacing a 5.25" drive with a 3.5" one will only give 360k capacity 
for the 3.5" drive.)

So, can we have 2 floppy disk controller cards?

Thank you in advance for giving the answers.

--che
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