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- From: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu (Paul Southworth)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: How to Install MFM+IDE.??
- Date: 10 Nov 1992 20:57:44 GMT
- Organization: University of Michigan ITD Consulting and Support Services
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- In article <92315.142723U35805@uicvm.uic.edu> <U35805@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
- > I have just bought a IDE hard-drive recently. After I install
- > the IDE hard-drive with the MFM hard-drive as D:\ the BIOS read
- > HDD controller failure. I found that when I have the MFM con-
- > controller removed the machine works fine. Does anyone out there
- > have their IDE and MFM install together in a same machine?
- > Any help or suggestion will be greatly appreciate!!
- > (By the way I have the BIOS Setup w/ (IDE C:\
- > MFM D:\). I Have a 386DX40 machine.)
-
- You have to have at least one controller that can be configured as
- secondary (ie, change IRQ to 15 and make address different from the other
- controller) or they will fight it out between themselves, with the
- entertaining results you experienced. Most controllers do not permit
- this switch. Read the manuals to see if yours can be configured (typically
- by jumper games) or call the manufacturer. If it's a cheapo controller
- and you don't have a manual and the manufacturer is somewhere across the
- planet, you're probably out of luck.
-
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