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- From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
- Subject: Re: IDE,SCSI,486
- References: <Jul.26.20.54.32.1992.23012@pilot.njin.net>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 15:45:43 GMT
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- lodzins@pilot.njin.net (Dean Lodzinski) writes:
- >What is the maximum number of IDE drives that can be in an ISA system
- >at one time. I know only 2 per controller, but can there be more than
- >one controller?
- *----
- There's no real limit. But you'll be hard-pressed to find a controller
- and device driver off-the-shelf that can do better than a primary and
- secondary controller (with two drives each).
-
- >Can an ISA system have both a SCSI AND IDE controller installed at the
- >same time? If so, are there any limitations to note?
- *----
- Yes. But again, you'll almost certainly need an external device driver
- if you have more than one disk on the IDE controller, and you'll
- probably have to boot from the IDE disk.
-
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- Mike Berger
- Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
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