NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/comp/sys/ibm/pc/hardware/22082

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From: [e-mail] (Matthew Gream)
Subject: Adding a 3rd hard drive
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 23:50:50 GMT
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I guess this should almost be a FAQ :-).

 Situation: I have a 386-33 clone, with AMI bios [recent revision], installed
is a 81meg maxtor as primary HD and a 44meg seagate as secondary, however
I am in the process of installing Linux at the moment, to replace MSDOS,
I also have an old seagate 32meg [RLL, 20meg MFM] 69ms drive that has sat
in my drawer unused for near on two years, Id like to try to get this drive
mounted on my system [primarily for source code storage, not swap :-))]

 So I guess I would need a RLL controller that has its controller address
selectable, and install it with a non conflicting address, then its up to
me to see what i can do at the linux end [I havent fully investigated that
side so far, but with kernel source code at my disposal i should be able
to do something]. Has anyone done something similar to this [under any
O/S]? And if so, can provide a list of controllers that support switchable
addressing.

 Please Email, ill summarise if interest warrants.

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