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Floppy drive controller
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| prezbedard 2004-02-20, 5:22 pm |
| ok I have a question I never really thought about until recently.
Technically speaking does the floppy drive controller have 2 channels since it is capable of supporting an A and B drive or is there another term?
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| DaDnDe 2004-03-04, 10:20 pm |
| umm interesting question.
the older floppies had 5 wires that were twisted between the two connectors. the twisted wires were connected to the end connector or the A drive. the B drive was on the middle connector or the one closet to the MB.
so i think it would be fair to say that there were 2 channels in the cable.
also before, if you had one drive, it had to be connected to the end plug. but nowadays, it doesnt matter. | |
| gauji 2004-03-04, 10:22 pm |
| quote:
Originally posted by DaDnDe
umm interesting question.
the older floppies had 5 wires that were twisted between the two connectors. the twisted wires were connected to the end connector or the A drive. the B drive was on the middle connector or the one closet to the MB.
so i think it would be fair to say that their were 2 channels in the cable.
also before, if you had one drive, it had to be connected to the end plug. but nowadays, it doesnt matter.
Agree that the cable supports 2 channels | |
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| azimuth40 2004-03-05, 1:07 am |
| And the winner is prezbedard  Uh guys the original PC 1981-82 had one 8 bit card with very big chips by todays standards which supported two drives. Today we would call that a channel. | |
| Kasor 2004-03-06, 10:05 pm |
| very interesting... forgot to look up old floppy drive.. guess most of us don't have any at the stock |
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