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- From: ralf+@cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
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- Subject: Re: 2 monitors
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- Date: 11 Sep 92 04:14:52 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?
- }>
- }>That's easy. Use SCSI.
- }
- }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
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- There are also a few IDE controllers which handle four drives, and IDE
- controllers which can be set to a secondary address (I don't know if the
- intersection of these two sets is non-empty). So you can have seven SCSI
- drives and four IDE drives in one system.... You'll need drivers for the
- SCSI disks, of course, and probably for the third and fourth IDE disks.
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