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- Subject: Re: 2 monitors
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- Date: 11 Sep 92 21:35:40 GMT
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- In article <18qvctINN2ln@agate.berkeley.edu> ucbked@athena (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
- >From: ucbked@athena (Earl H. Kinmonth)
- >Subject: Re: 2 monitors
- >Date: 11 Sep 92 20:26:05 GMT
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- >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:
- >>
- >[ question pertaining to more than 2 hard disks on a PeeCee. ]
- >>That's easy. Use SCSI.
-
- >Or use Xenix. On AT-bus machines, some versions support multiple
- >controllers so you can have at least four disks without SCSI.
-
- Unfortunately, standard "AT" controllers do not support this feature.
- Some RLL controllers and ESDI do, I have yet to see an IDE, but there
- probably is one. Just beware that the software support for this is not
- enough, the controllers (at least one) have to be addressable at alternate
- ports and interrupts.
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