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Post #10 by Dennis Nedry
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryHardware
Post DateMon, 8 Mar 2010 - 04:28
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/floppy-port-limit.20073/
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I don't even think you can - I don't think the Apple PC 5.25" drive has a port for daisy chaining, does it?
The Mac II has lots of NuBus slots, so I was talking more along the lines of installing a plethora of those cards and attaching a 5.25" drive to each.

Pardon my vague memory, but does anyone know if this is actually supported or just a theoretical, physical maximum? I seem to remember that only two devices at a time are physically supported by the controller in the Mac.
That seems possible. There are only eject keystrokes for 2 normal floppy drives.

⌘⇧1 - Eject With Ghost Drive 1

⌘⇧2 - Eject With Ghost Drive 2

⌘⇧3 - Screenshot!

BTW neat trick most of us know - when it asks for a disk to be reinserted and you can't for some reason, hit ⌘+period a bunch of times.

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