Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!tank!iitmax!ed From: ed@iitmax.IIT.EDU (Ed Federmeyer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Can two harddrive controllers be in one XT? Message-ID: <2893@iitmax.IIT.EDU> Date: 26 Oct 89 13:59:01 GMT Reply-To: ed@iitmax.iit.edu (Ed Federmeyer) Organization: Illinois Institute of Technology Lines: 25 Can you have more than one hard disk controller in one IBM PC/XT clone? What I have in mind is to buy a 5 or 10Mb MFM hard drive (no snickers please...) and controller kit. Eventually I'll be able to afford a 30Mb RLL drive, and it would be nice if I didn't have to trash the small drive. An extra coupla meg never hurt anyone! :-) Since the drives would be different types (MFM vs. RLL), would the controllers be able to work in a single system without conflict? Will I be able to select which drive is C and which is D? And further... will I be able to set up my system in such a way as to boot from drive D? (In other words, can I select via FDISK (or something similar) not only the active partition on a disk, but which whole DISK is active? (Maybe I would set no active partition on C, and make a partion on D be active, then the XT would search the drives in order until it finds the active partition on D??? Is this the right idea, or is there a better way?) Thanks, Ed Federmeyer -- //==========================================================================\\ || Ed Federmeyer || UUCP: ed@iitMax.iit.edu || || "Unauthorized access is || Bitnet: sysed@iitVax || || strictly unauthorized." || Office: (312) 567-5981 || \\==========================================================================//