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- From: brad@slammer.UUCP (Brad Isley)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
- Subject: Re: Primary SCSI, secondary athd on ISC Unix 3.0 possible?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug25.235519.19024@slammer.UUCP>
- Date: 25 Aug 92 23:55:19 GMT
- References: <1992Aug21.180336.6922@grebyn.com> <BtGpvF.9tv@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us>
- Organization: Just me & my computers
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- In article <BtGpvF.9tv@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug21.180336.6922@grebyn.com> richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel) writes:
- >>permits this configuration? Is there an insurmountable obstacle that
- >>prohibits this configuration? Thanks in advance.
- >
- >This is probably a hopeless task. The reason is that the Adaptec
- >1542B does not operate through the AT BIOS hard drive calls; instead,
- >it has its own add-on BIOS that chains off the AT BIOS. Because of
- >the way this is designed, if you have a WD1003-compatible hard disk in
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- In the 2.2.1 manuals it says you can do this by telling your computer's
- CMOS that there are no hard drives installed. Then it WILL boot from the
- Adaptec controller. After that, ISC will know how to access your ST-506
- drives without using the CMOS stuff. BTW: I never tried this - I dunno
- what 3.0 says, but I imagine this would be the same.
-
- The Adaptec controller is capable of booting with NO CMOS drives installed.
- That much I can vouch for.
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