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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: >2 SCSI drives on DOS?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.205058.11622@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Dec8.192212.1@happy.colorado.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:50:58 GMT
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- In <1992Dec8.192212.1@happy.colorado.edu> srheintze@happy.colorado.edu writes:
-
- >I was surprised to read in my booklet for my Always Corp IN-2000 SCSI
- >controller that I could not connect more than two drives. While my
- >controller is SCSI and SCSI supports 7 devices, apparently there is a
- >restriction with DOS.
-
- >Can anybody tell me more about this restriction? Is there a way around it?
-
- There's a BIOS restriction to 2 drives. If you don't use the BIOS
- (you load a device driver for DOS to use talking to the SCSIs
- instead), then you can have more devices. I don't know if your board
- has such drivers or not -- contact your manufacturer to see. Mine
- does (I have an Adaptec AHA-1740), and I plan on hanging more than 2
- drives from it.
-
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- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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