I'm looking for a PCI floppy disk drive controller; it must be for the PCI bus.
It also must be capable of supporting 2-8 floppy disk drives, otherwise it is nearly useless to me.
Dude, if that existed, we'd all have them.
Why ya think we all have to keep ISA-based systems running for imaging?
Beside that, the PC never used 8" FDD's, so that is a mission in itself.
What *I* use for 8" is:
CompatiCard IV
Acer Pentium 75 w/ 64M RAM, 2GB IDE (CompatiCard requires P75 or
SLOWER)
dbit.com FDADAP for connecting 8" drives to the CompatiCard IV
Various drives: Shugart 801 and 851 8" drives, 3.5" 720kb and 1.44MB, 5.25" 360KB, 720KB, and 1.2MB FDD's.
You MIGHT be able to get away with something like an ISA-bus based system, using the FDC on an Adaptec AHA1542
B SCSI controller, and the FDADAP to connect the 8" drive, and using TeleDisk/IMD/etc...
Note that it MUST be a 'B' model, as I have never gotten a 'C' model to work properly. The 1542B will read single-density, and I have tried it and verified it.
By the time PCI was out, pretty much most, if not all mainboards, had most I/O onboard, from FDC to IDE, Serial, Parallel, PS/2, etc...
I, myself, have never seen a "true" PCI Floppy controller.
A Catweasel is an add-on that is driven by special software, ie, I don't think DOS/Windows sees the CatWeasel as an FDD and will use it accordingly.
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