I have need to setup a compter with two 3.5 floppy drives and two 5.25 floppy drives. Don't ask why because it is an insane, and she'll get what she wants. Is this even possible. In BIOS you have and option for A: and B: drives but nothing else. Would the rest of the drives act like CDROMS or what. The main purpose is to copy 1 disk to another in both sizes. Thanks guys

There are floppy drive emulators that will do just what you are asking about. You can make the drive 360 up to 1.44 with just a click. It will act just like a floppy drive with a floppy in it. If memory serves you can have as many as ten different floppy drives this way. To do what you want with 4 drives, you will need 4 bays, a special ribbon and perhaps a second card. I would guess also a few power splitters. There is a shareware version and a freeware version. Search if interested under emulators or floppy emulators. Some help I hope. Hmmmm

Thank you Hmmm...!

There are controller cards that support 4 floppies - I've got an ancient one here (somewhere). As well, there's software, like Norton's dupdisk (1994 - maybe earlier versions) that will do the job even if you only have one floppy drive. And don't forget the classic: diskcopy a: a: which will copy the source in one pass and write the target in another (on modern machines, anyways). These just copy files tho' - to duplicate system disks you need a disk-imaging program.

I have a contoller card, a VESA card. with a primary and secondary FDD controller and HDD controller, but it taks a special driver. I heard you can use a VESA card in a standard ISA slot if you just cut off the Exetended connector is this true, somone said it was,

John, maybe whoever told you that read the feature article here: http://www.skrybe.net/showpage.asp?MyPageID=100 A good rule of thumb would be: don't cut your hardware into new and interesting pieces. There are a lot of new cards that can do what was considered impossible a few years ago. The card I've got is an MFM hard drive controller (before IDE) with a pair of floppy connectors - I told you it was old - and requires no special drivers - maybe a DOS setting, I forget. The thing is, it'll be a lot easier for Peter to use diskcopy or similar app rather than to buy and install new hardware.

I do a lot of disk copying of older DOS versions and programs. I use Disk Image Pro 5 for DOS (Which I beleave is compatable with WinImage as well) I create a disk image for future or multiple copies. Then write to same disk format or differant format as needed. Only copy I have seen on the net id Disk Image Pro 2.6 which is just as good at www.powerload.fsnet.co.uk/bootdisk.htm This way I only need 1 of each drives!