[Coco] Re: Max number of disk drives?

[Theodore A. Evans]

On 10/11/03, Dave Poitras wrote:

> That is correct if you disregard hard drives. You should be able to have 8
> SCSI devices with Cloud-9's interface. I do not remember if the GCC IDE
> card allowed 2 or only 1. I have not tried to use both interfaces
> together. Is it Possible? The B&B set up also allowed for 2 MFM or RLL
> drives.

Remember for those 8 SCSI devices the controller counts as one.  It is
also possible to do some hacking and support up to 15 single sided or
7 double sided floppy drives on a single controller and to do hacks to
permit more than one floppy controller on a single system.

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