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- From: jnewborn@ecst.csuchico.edu (Gadget)
- Subject: Re: 2 monitors
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.014956.27836@ecst.csuchico.edu>
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- Organization: California State University, Chico
- References: <3557@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <exuptr.478.716144921@exu.ericsson.se> <1590@cogsci.ucsd.EDU>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 01:49:56 GMT
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- In article <1590@cogsci.ucsd.EDU> hartung@crl.ucsd.edu (Jeff Hartung) writes:
- >In article <exuptr.478.716144921@exu.ericsson.se> exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se) writes:
- >>In article <3557@ra.nrl.navy.mil> miner@hightop.nrl.navy.mil (Les Miner) writes:
- >>>Here's another good one, can you run more than 2 hard drives on a 386?
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- >>That's easy. Use SCSI.
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- >You don't need to have a SCSI drive/card to have two hard drives. It is quite
- >possible in most cases to daisy chain a second hard drive onto and existing
- >IDE drive. This occasionally doesn't work with pairs of drives from different
- >manufacturers, but almost always works with drives from the same manufacturer.
- >Furthermore, compatibility between various IDE drives has improved quite a bit
- >over the last couple of years.
- >
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- Another option are the 'new' caching comtrollers that can handle 2 floppies
- and 4 hard drives. I don't know the details, but I've heard they work
- incredibly well.
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