Can I have multiple Floppy drives?

bartthecartoon · 10-13-2005, 08:38 PM

The age of the floppy is at an end (my computer didn't even include a floppy drive). But I thought a cool upgrade would be to add 2 external floppy drives so I could read and copy floppies. Is it possible to have 2 floppy drives on one computer? If so what would the other one be called (the one that wasn't your [A] Drive?

Lonewolf5460 · 10-13-2005, 08:43 PM

it will work back when floppys were it some computers had dual drives an old mobo i have supports two.

bartthecartoon · 10-13-2005, 08:47 PM

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Originally posted by matt2m
it will work back when floppys were it some computers had dual drives an old mobo i have supports two.

Its pretty weird, my computer has a connector for a floppy drive, but it doesn't have an external 3.5" bay. Does anyone know why that would be?

Lonewolf5460 · 10-13-2005, 10:12 PM

no offence but it is an emachines.

KCRMYZ · 10-13-2005, 10:30 PM

Why would you want multiple floppys?

Jorsoft · 10-13-2005, 11:09 PM

The motherboard in your pc supports a floppy, your case does not.
Yeah, you can have two floppy drives (external) without a problem. The first one will be called "A" and the second "B".

Lonewolf5460 · 10-13-2005, 11:11 PM

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Originally posted by KCRMYZ
Why would you want multiple floppys?

I was talking about back in the day when the were the main storage option

bartthecartoon · 10-14-2005, 04:40 PM

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Originally posted by KCRMYZ
Why would you want multiple floppys?

I said in my post why I want them, I want to be able to read and copy floppy disks. I could do it with one, but it wouldn't be as fast.

gimli of gloin · 10-14-2005, 07:23 PM

another piece of useless hardware...lol

bartthecartoon · 10-14-2005, 08:20 PM

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Originally posted by gimli of gloin
another piece of useless hardware...lol

Well, yes for tech-geeks like me it is mostly useless, but a lot of my friends still use them, so it would be nice to have a drive or 2 for when my friends came over, so they could open any files they happened to have on their floppies.

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