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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!boulder!juliet!drew
- From: drew@juliet.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Re: Likely FAQ. Best Solution for SCSI/IDE on one PC.????
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.021312.5359@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
- References: <1992Jul27.200338.29099@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 02:13:12 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <1992Jul27.200338.29099@cbnewse.cb.att.com> hjanssen@cbnewse.cb.att.com (hank janssen) writes:
- >
- >This is most likely a faq, but since i just started reading/posting to
- >this newsgroup so i hope the net will forgive me my ignorance.
- >
- >I have a 486/33Mhz with a 210 IDE Mb harddisk, I have on there a 150
- >Mb unix partition and two 25 Mb MSDOS partitions. Is it possible to
- >hook up another SCSI disk to this machine. (I have a 210 Mb SCSI disk
- >laying around.
-
- Yes.
-
- >
- >If so, what kind of (extra.??) controller do i need.
-
- SCSI.
-
- >Will i get strange system behaviour.
-
- No.
-
- >Has anybody done this before, if so what are the experiences with
- >it.???
-
- Yes. It works well. With swap on a separate drive / controller from
- your other files, you get better performance when paging under Unix.
-
- >
- >Any help is very much apreciated.
- >
-
- Get an ADAPTEC 154x. Drivers are available for most Unices, even
- the two free Unixes (The Jolitz port of BSD and Linux). Support
- for other boards is harder to come by.
-
-