Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: Two concurrent floppies? | Date | Tue, 3 Jun 1997 22:01:37 +0100 (BST) |
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> I have (for no other reason than it looks pretty cool) two 3.5" HD floppy > drives, and it seems that I can only have one running at any given time. > eg. dd if=/dev/fd0 of=image0 bs=64k & dd if=/dev/fd1 of=image1 bs=64k > will only read from 1 drive at a time. This is obviously not a big > problem, and I tend only to notice when dd'ing RH install disks, but I'd > be interested to hear whether this is a chipset/fdc thing of a driver > problem.
Neither the floppy controller nor the motherboard DMA can do two things at once. This is actually a right pain in the arse with floppy tape drives.
Alan
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