Re: Two floppy drives?

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From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Mon Jun 24 2002 - 19:56:00 EDT

considering that floppies are on back order (about 10,000) vmware sounds
like a good idea.. :-)
two virtual floppy drives..
sounds good to me..

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Geary" <Mike_at_Geary.com>
To: <andres_at_msu.edu>; "thinkpad" <THINKPAD_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 4:59 PM
Subject: RE: Two floppy drives?

> > Can I have two floppies in an ultrabay 2000 machine, like my
> > A30p?
> >
> > I have a perverse need for two floppies at once...
>
> IBM always makes sure that stuff like this works, as Bill confirms.
>
> On my A21p, I take yet another approach. If I need to run software that
uses
> two floppies, I just configure a VMware virtual machine with two virtual
> floppy drives and run the software there. One of the virtual floppy drives
> can be connected to the physical drive and the other to a .FLP image file,
> or they can both be connected to .FLP files. I can reconnect them in any
> combination without shutting down the virtual machine. I could buy a
floppy
> drive for the Ultrabay, but the VM works just as well, with no extra
> hardware. You probably wouldn't want to buy VMware for this alone, but
it's
> useful for a lot of other things too.
>
> -Mike
>
>

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