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- From: kistler@iowave.physics.uiowa.edu
- Subject: Re: more than 2 drives (was Re: 2 monitors)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.172623.1@iowave.physics.uiowa.edu>
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- Organization: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa
- References: <3557@ra.nrl.navy.mil> <exuptr.478.716144921@exu.ericsson.se> <18qvctINN2ln@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 22:26:23 GMT
-
- In article <18qvctINN2ln@agate.berkeley.edu>,
- ucbked@athena (Earl H. Kinmonth) 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:
- >>
- > [ 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.
-
- The operating system is irrelevant. Any operating system for the PC has
- ways of dealing with more than two physical HD's. If the hardware you've
- got doesn't support them, NO OS will let you use more than two drives.
-
- The trick (as Ralf Brown said in an earlier note) is to use controllers that
- will let you reassign their control port addresses (usually by jumpers)
- and/or use controllers that can, of and by themselves, control more than
- two drives each (SCSI included but not exclusive).
-
- Since this is more of a "caveat emptor" issue rather than a *.programmer issue,
- I suppose helpful folks could send specific brand names and models of boards
- to the original poster (if they haven't already).
-
- Allen Kistler
- kistler@iowave.physics.uiowa.edu
-