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- From: yeh@cs.purdue.edu (Wei Jen Yeh)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: DELL -> Re: ISC: ESDI & SCSI in one host ?
- Date: 18 Dec 1992 21:50:42 -0500
- Organization: Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University
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- Message-ID: <1gu2m2INNc4q@jessie.cs.purdue.edu>
- References: <Bz9x3p.Aqw@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <1992Dec15.153315.12715@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <PCG.92Dec18225211@decb.aber.ac.uk>
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- Summary: Both SCSI and MFM in a system
-
- In article <PCG.92Dec18225211@decb.aber.ac.uk>, pcg@aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) writes:
-
- > I will repeat this: yes, you can have SCSI and ESDI/IDE/whatever at the
- > same time.
- >
- > No, you cannot boot from a SCSI drive with an Adaptec controller if
- > there are any other disk controllers; as soon as the Adaptec BIOS sees
- > that there are other drives configured in the CMOS, it refuses to boot.
- >
- > So, it's possible, as long as the (first) non SCSI disk is the boot disk.
-
- With help from support@dell, I was able to boot up from my SCSI hard
- drive (a Microplis) and mount the other two MFM drives. The trick is
- to leave the MFM disks out in the cmos settings and have the working
- hd dev drivers. It's nice to have an extra 110 mb (an st251 and a
- miniscribe 4085) to store the gnu sources.
-
- That was Issue 2.1. I was told that the same should work for 2.2 too.
-
- Wei Jen Yeh yeh@cs.purdue.edu
- Department of Computer Science
- Purdue University
- West Lafayette, Indiana
-