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- From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Adding a 3rd (and 4th...) hard drive
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.202940.2616@sj.ate.slb.com>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 20:29:40 GMT
- References: <1992Nov17.154914.27189@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Robert Osterlund (spcberto@cicero.spc.uchicago.edu) wrote:
- : In article <1992Oct30.225037.28396@midway.uchicago.edu> spcberto@psyche.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund) writes:
- : >I have two hard drives. Recently I moved DOS & Windows stuff off my D:
- : >drive onto my C: drive, then installed Linux on my second (formerly D:)
- : >drive. It's getting awfully crowded on my primary (Stacked) drive, and
- : >I can see already that my Linux drive is not going to be big enough.
- : >
- : >I'd like to add a 3rd drive to my system. What are the issues surrounding
- : >this? In particular,
- : >
- :
- : [stuff deleted]
- :
- : >--Is the Plus Hardcard guaranteed to coexist with any other drives you
- : > might have in your system?
- :
- : I called the tech department of the Quantum Corp., and they confirmed that
- : their HardCard series will indeed work with any existing drive, and any
- : number of existing drives, in one's system. I can do without the hassles
- : of SCSI, so I will probably be adding a Quantum HardCard as my 3rd drive.
- :
-
- What is such a hassle with SCSI? I have an Adaptec AHA1542B, 2 disks (307 and
- 91Mb CDC's), Texel CDROM, and Archive Viper 150Mb tape drive. No problems at
- all.
-
- I guess it depends on what you want to do, but if you plan to add peripherals
- like CDROM, tape, etc, I think it is more of a hassle to keep adding more
- cards in to handle each of these devices, when SCSI will do it all (and more)
- on the single card.
-
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