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From: todd@slammer.UUCP (Todd Merriman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: 2 hardrives of different interfaces allowed to coexist in PC UNIX?
Message-ID: <637@slammer.UUCP>
Date: 21 Aug 90 22:39:49 GMT
References: <25313.26ce9f6f@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
Reply-To: todd@slammer.UUCP (Todd Merriman)
Organization: Software Toolz, Inc. - Atlanta, GA
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In article <25313.26ce9f6f@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> teoh@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu writes:
>Is it possible to allow 2 different types of hard disks in a pc UNIX
>environment (using 2 different controllers)?

When I installed Interactive Unix 2.2 I attempted to use an ST-506 primary
controller and an Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller as secondary.  After
a *day* of re-building kernels and plugging and un-plugging controllers,
with nary a kernel that would boot, I gave up.  Fortunately, the SCSI
controller has floppy ports, so I decided to toss the ST-506, two MFM
drives, and use only the SCSI.

The Interactive documentation states that two different contollers is
definitely allowed, but clearly I didn't have the magic to make it
work!

   Todd Merriman
   Software Toolz, Inc.
   8030 Pooles Mill Dr., Ball Ground, GA 30107-9610
   todd@slammer.UUCP, V-mail (800) 869-3878, (404) 889-8264