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From: unkydave@shumv1.uucp (David Bank)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Two Hard Disk Controllers in One Machine
Summary: I've investigated it
Keywords: Western Digital controller second
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Date: 4 Nov 89 08:58:54 GMT
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In article <[2769.4]comp.ibmpc;1@point.UUCP> wek@point.UUCP (Bill Kuykendall) writes:
>>   In my experience, the problem is not one of software.
>>
>>   Rather, you have to buy at least one controller that is sufficiently
>>intelligent to be addressed as the secondary controller in the system.
>
>Have you actually done this, or is this conjecture?  I have serious doubts
>that any flavor of MS-DOS will bother to look for a second controller.
>
>---------------
>Bill Kuykendall
>Chicago, IL USA
> ...!point!wek
>wek@point.UUCP

    I was talking with Western Digital at one point (their tech support,
that is) about putting a second controller in my PC. They were telling
me that it would take a controller, such as the WD 1002S-WX1, that could
be set to address as the second controller in the system.

    Since the compute in question at the time was an ANCIENT IBM PC-1
with only five slots...all in use....it became rather moot.

    I'd suppose the feat could be accomplished either with software
or hardware. I only have information about the hardware end of it,
so someone else will have to pipe up on the software end.

Unky Dave
unkydave@shumv1.ncsu.edu

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