> So. Why did they have two controllers then? There must have been a reason. > > Bill.
Well, I guess the idea was that some SAMs would be used with a tape player and hence there was no point putting the controller on board, and that it was easier to have a controller in each drive making them easy plug-in-and-go devices. If they had left a socket for the controller on-board then we would have to do a BBC-B style installation - open the case, insert a chip without bending the pins, close the case (re-connecting those bloody awkward keyboard connectors!) and *then* simple slot in the drive! Not so easy, methinks. Anyway, if I'm guessing right about how the Atom works, having the controller on the motherboard would mean the second drive port couldn't be used to control a hard-drive. Can I just ask - if the DOS and existing software doesn't work with the two drives from one controller set up, how do users of the two-drive SAM Elite manage? Andy
