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From: chad@anasaz.UUCP (Chad R. Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: 2 hardrives of different interfaces allowed to coexist in PC UNIX?
Message-ID: <2931@anasaz.UUCP>
Date: 25 Aug 90 07:15:29 GMT
References: <1990Aug19.184438.8598@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu>
Reply-To: chad@anasaz.UUCP (Chad R. Larson)
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In article <1990Aug19.184438.8598@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu> teoh@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu writes:
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| Is it possible to allow 2 different types of hard disks in a pc UNIX
| environment (using 2 different controllers)? If so, what are comments
| on AT IDE vs ESDI drives?
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Yes, I did that to a Unisys 386 machine running Interactive 386/ix 2.0.0
last month.  The system came with a 70Mb drive, which left only about
20Mb available for "real" use once all the OS was loaded and swap space
configured.  The solution was to add a 300Mb ESDI drive and controller.

The Interactive HPDD can handle an extra controller right out of the box.
There were no real problems other than I had to edit the /etc/partitions
file by hand.



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