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- From: cek@sdc.boeing.com (Conrad Kimball)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Pitfalls? Got SCSI, want to add RLL
- Message-ID: <7699@fury.BOEING.COM>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 05:11:48 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.062210.20036@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Distribution: usa
- Organization: Boeing Computer Services (ESP), Seattle, WA
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- In article <1992Dec29.062210.20036@nwnexus.WA.COM> markmc@halcyon.com (Mark McWiggins) writes:
- >I have a newish 486 with a big SCSI disk + tape (Unix + DOS partitions), and a
- >dead 386SX with an RLL controller & Seagate 30 MB drive.
- >
- >I'd like to at least temporarily install the RLL controller & Seagate
- >drive in the 486, in order to back up the Seagate to a tape. If there's
- >no particular reason not to, I'd probably just leave the drive there to
- >be D:.
- >
- >I have enough IRQs; anything else to watch out for? Thanks in advance.
-
- I had a 386 with an RLL drive & controller and then bought a SCSI drive
- & controller. I discovered that the only way to get the two to operate
- together was to have the RLL drive as C: and the SCSI drive as D:. The
- reason is that apparently during system boot the motherboard BIOS detects
- the presence of the RLL drive before the SCSI controller BIOS has a chance
- to get control, and the hard drive letters are assigned in the order the
- drives are detected.
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