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Floppy Drive Controllers

Source: microsoft.public.virtualpc
Sent: 04/30/2007
From: bmoore
Message:

I have Windows 98 Second Edition installed on Virtual PC 2007. When opening
"My Computer" icon I only see one Floppy Drive, which is my Floppy A Drive
1.44 MB.

I cannot access my Floppy B Drive which is the old 5 1/4 inch 1.2 MB or my
Conner QIC-80 Tape Drive under Accessories/Backup.

I am wondering if Virtual PC 2007 only supports 1 floppy Drive?

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Re: Floppy Drive Controllers

Sent: 04/30/2007
From: bmoore
Message:

Does Virtual PC 2004 support more than 1 floppy drive?

I need to run a virtual pc that will support both my floppy drives and Tape
drive.

"Robert Comer" wrote:

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> >I am wondering if Virtual PC 2007 only supports 1 floppy Drive?
>
> Correct, it only supports one floppy drive.
>
> --
> Bob Comer <Microsoft MVP Windows - Virtual Machine>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:44:00 -0700, bmoore
> <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>
> >I have Windows 98 Second Edition installed on Virtual PC 2007. When opening
> >"My Computer" icon I only see one Floppy Drive, which is my Floppy A Drive
> >1.44 MB.
> >
> >I cannot access my Floppy B Drive which is the old 5 1/4 inch 1.2 MB or my
> >Conner QIC-80 Tape Drive under Accessories/Backup.
> >
> >I am wondering if Virtual PC 2007 only supports 1 floppy Drive?
>

Re: Floppy Drive Controllers

Sent: 04/30/2007
From: Robert Comer <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

>I am wondering if Virtual PC 2007 only supports 1 floppy Drive?

Correct, it only supports one floppy drive.

--
Bob Comer <Microsoft MVP Windows - Virtual Machine>

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:44:00 -0700, bmoore
<(email address - cut out)> wrote:

Show quoted text

>I have Windows 98 Second Edition installed on Virtual PC 2007. When opening
>"My Computer" icon I only see one Floppy Drive, which is my Floppy A Drive
>1.44 MB.
>
>I cannot access my Floppy B Drive which is the old 5 1/4 inch 1.2 MB or my
>Conner QIC-80 Tape Drive under Accessories/Backup.
>
>I am wondering if Virtual PC 2007 only supports 1 floppy Drive?

Re: Floppy Drive Controllers

Sent: 04/30/2007
From: Robert Comer <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

>Does Virtual PC 2004 support more than 1 floppy drive?

No, sorry.

I don't know of any virtualization product that can do floppy
interface tape drives, but here's a discussion of a workaround for
using 5.25 floppies in a VPC VM:

http://blogs.msdn.com/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2005/05/16/418221.aspx

This might be too much of a pain though. I've never tried using
5.25's in VMWare, but it might be worth a shot asking your question in
the VMWare forums.

--
Bob Comer <Microsoft MVP Windows - Virtual Machine>

On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:24:00 -0700, bmoore
<(email address - cut out)> wrote:

Show quoted text

>I need to run a virtual pc that will support both my floppy drives and Tape
>drive.
>Does Virtual PC 2004 support more than 1 floppy drive?
>
>I need to run a virtual pc that will support both my floppy drives and Tape
>drive.
>
>"Robert Comer" wrote:
>
>> >I am wondering if Virtual PC 2007 only supports 1 floppy Drive?
>>
>> Correct, it only supports one floppy drive.
>>
>> --
>> Bob Comer <Microsoft MVP Windows - Virtual Machine>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:44:00 -0700, bmoore
>> <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>>
>> >I have Windows 98 Second Edition installed on Virtual PC 2007. When opening
>> >"My Computer" icon I only see one Floppy Drive, which is my Floppy A Drive
>> >1.44 MB.
>> >
>> >I cannot access my Floppy B Drive which is the old 5 1/4 inch 1.2 MB or my
>> >Conner QIC-80 Tape Drive under Accessories/Backup.
>> >
>> >I am wondering if Virtual PC 2007 only supports 1 floppy Drive?
>>

Re: Floppy Drive Controllers

Sent: 05/01/2007
From: "Phillip Windell" <(email address - cut out)>
Message:

Think about how VPC actually works. The guest OS never ever ever sees the real
physical hardware.

Your actual hard drives? No, it sees the VHDs as drives

Your drive controllers? No, it sees only the emulated ones.

The Floppy Drive? No, it only sees the emulated drive or image file.

The CD Rom? No, it only sees the emulated drive or an ISO file.

Serial Port, Printer Port? No. They are emulated and link to the Physical one
or to a "file".

Mouse? No. It sees the generic emulated mouse no matter what brand is physically
connected to the Host PC

The Tape Drive? No. They would have to build an emulated "generic" Tape Drive
into VPC that would be "linked" to the physical drive,...unfortuneately there
are dozens of Drive Formats, Tape Formats, Tape capacities. It would probably
only be possible if the emulated Tape Drive and the Physcial Tape drive were
based on the same Tape Format and Tape Capacity,....and what is the chance MS
would choose something that would keep everyone happy?,...forget it,..never
happen.

This is basically the same situation as USB,...which I mentioned in another
post.

--
Phillip Windell
www.wandtv.com

The views expressed, are my own and not those of my employer, or Microsoft, or
anyone else associated with me, including my cats.
-----------------------------------------------------

"bmoore" <(email address - cut out)> wrote in message
news:(email address - cut out)...

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> Does Virtual PC 2004 support more than 1 floppy drive?
>
> I need to run a virtual pc that will support both my floppy drives and Tape
> drive.
>
> "Robert Comer" wrote:
>
>> >I am wondering if Virtual PC 2007 only supports 1 floppy Drive?
>>
>> Correct, it only supports one floppy drive.
>>
>> --
>> Bob Comer <Microsoft MVP Windows - Virtual Machine>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:44:00 -0700, bmoore
>> <(email address - cut out)> wrote:
>>
>> >I have Windows 98 Second Edition installed on Virtual PC 2007. When opening
>> >"My Computer" icon I only see one Floppy Drive, which is my Floppy A Drive
>> >1.44 MB.
>> >
>> >I cannot access my Floppy B Drive which is the old 5 1/4 inch 1.2 MB or my
>> >Conner QIC-80 Tape Drive under Accessories/Backup.
>> >
>> >I am wondering if Virtual PC 2007 only supports 1 floppy Drive?
>>

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