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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 5:04 am

EXT2FDD

I know this little tidbit lets you connect a floppy to a parallel port, but HOW?
I have a SIIG SC-JEE012 16bit 4 port EIDE with Multi-IO dual floppies, yada yada, but it says on the parallel settings EXT2FDD for a jumper. That tells me this controller has logic for 4 floppies, but how does one implement a floppy through the parallel port..

I may also have a lead on a floppy controller that supports 4 internal drives and an external one, picked it up at RE-PC, lookin into it soon..

Joined: 19 Apr 2006 Posts: 261 Location: WisConSin

beware, just because something looks like a parallel port doesn't mean it is, my laptops have had a parallel port like connection for floppies, it wasn't a parallel port.

Also there were parallel port devices that had some type of drive inside be it a cd-rom (backpack), hd or floppy but you usually needed a driver and special hardware to truly run a drive over a parallel port.

Good Luck
Ryan

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 2:38 am

no, it's a standard parallel port, but it's a jumper that lets it do ext2fdd, what exactly does that do, aside from extend the super i/o floppy controller to the parallel port