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- From: wo@rio70.snibln.de (Wolfgang Kalthoff)
- Subject: Re: IDE And SCSI with a Twist
- Message-ID: <wo.722170946@rio70>
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- Organization: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG, Berlin, Germany
- References: <1992Nov4.162247.10869@lth.se> <92312.160559REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> <1992Nov11.042817.9464@cs.mcgill.ca> <1992Nov11.044059.9638@cs.mcgill.ca> <wo.721679811@rio70> <1992Nov14.214821.1@ttd.teradyne.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:02:26 GMT
- Lines: 49
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- rice@ttd.teradyne.com writes:
-
- >In article <wo.721679811@rio70>, wo@rio70.snibln.de (Wolfgang Kalthoff) writes:
- >> storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
- >>
- >>>I am considering mixing a SCSI drive in with my IDE drive sometime in the
- >>>near future. However, I want to make sure that the 340MB IDE is still the
- >>>drive that boots the system, and ends up as the C: drive.
- >>>Can I add a SCSI Controller, tack a 200MB SCSI drive onto it, and still keep
- >>>the IDE drive as the primary one.
-
-
- >>>How would one go about entering that into the BIOS...? (I seem to recall that
- >>>SCSI drives aren't entered into the BIOS or something like that !)
- >>
- >> Simply plug in the controller and the drive. That's all!!
- >>
-
- >Not quite so easy as that.. If you want the SCSI drive to be a secondary
- >drive, you have to disable the bios on the SCSI controller. (At least in the
-
- That's wrong.
- You have to disable the bios, if you
- 1) have no drive but tape, CDRom or .. attached or
- 2) have a 2nd, 3rd .. SCSI controller
-
- >adaptec), then load a couple of device drivers ASPI4DOS and another that
-
- It's a good idea to have ASPI4DOS as the first line in config.sys, but it works
- without.
-
- >I forget (I'm at home and my documentation is at the office). You don't have
- >to put anything in the BIOS. But it does work fine.
-
- >Make sure that when you purchase the SCSI controller, you get the version that
- >comes with the device drivers (Adaptec kits them separately, so that the
- >controller can be purchased with or without drivers).
-
-
- >>>I've been looking at the UltraStor 14F, but there is also the possibility
- >>>of picking up an Adaptec.
-
- >Pick up the Adaptec 1542B-K (the -k is the "kit" with the device driver
- >software). It's pretty much the 'standard'.
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