Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!cbnewsi!dmk
From: dmk@cbnewsi.att.com (daniel.m.kuster..jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Two HD controllers on a PC?
Message-ID: <1990Aug14.123053.19271@cbnewsi.att.com>
Date: 14 Aug 90 12:30:53 GMT
References: <1990Aug13.045751.6955@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <1990Aug13.045751.6955@odin.corp.sgi.com> close@cygnus.com (Diane Barlow Close) writes:
>I have an old PC-class machine that I decided to add a hard card to (a Plus
>10 meg hardcard).  I want to continue to use the original hard drive, a Xebec
>9710H 10 meg drive and controller.  That's the problem -- the two drives/
>controllers don't get along at all together.  With both plugged in the
>machine refuses to even boot.  Since the power-on diagnostics run fine, this
>is not a power problem.

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>Thanks.
>--
>Diane Barlow Close
>	close@lunch.wpd.sgi.com
>	also 	close@cygnus.com
>	I'm at lunch today.  :-)

I have the exact same problem with an AT&T 6386 SX.  In my case,
the hard disk controller that came with the system is built in to
the motherboard.  If anyone knows how to add a hard card to such a
system please post a reply.  I suspect that only one hard disk controller
can exist in the computer at a time (but I could be wrong :-) ).

Thanks,
dan k.
dmk@lcuxlf.ATT.COM