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- From: wo@rio70.snibln.de (Wolfgang Kalthoff)
- Subject: Re: IDE And SCSI with a Twist
- Message-ID: <wo.721679811@rio70>
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- References: <1992Nov4.162247.10869@lth.se> <92312.160559REE700A@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> <1992Nov11.042817.9464@cs.mcgill.ca> <1992Nov11.044059.9638@cs.mcgill.ca>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:36:51 GMT
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- storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
-
- >I am considering mixing a SCSI drive in with my IDE drive sometime in the
- >near future. However, I want to make sure that the 340MB IDE is still the
- >drive that boots the system, and ends up as the C: drive.
- >Can I add a SCSI Controller, tack a 200MB SCSI drive onto it, and still keep
- >the IDE drive as the primary one.
- >How would one go about entering that into the BIOS...? (I seem to recall that
- >SCSI drives aren't entered into the BIOS or something like that !)
-
- Simply plug in the controller and the drive. That's all!!
-
- >I've been looking at the UltraStor 14F, but there is also the possibility
- >of picking up an Adaptec.
-
- I have no experience with the Ultrastore, but the Adaptec with the latest
- drivers works fine for DOS, Windows, Windows NT, OS/2, and UNIX.
-
- Happy upgrading!
- Wolfgang
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