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From: evil@arcturus.uucp (Wade Guthrie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: SCSI harddrive help
Message-ID: <1990Aug30.151842.5966@arcturus.uucp>
Date: 30 Aug 90 15:18:42 GMT
Organization: Rockwell International
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Hon Ming writes:
> I've been having trouble trying to install three or more SCSI 
> harddrives onto my system.  
> [...]  a DTC SCSI controller. [...]
> The problem occurs when I try to hook up all three at once.  

I believe that the IBM BIOS only recognizes two physical harddrives
(and someone will correct me if I'm wrong).  The Adaptec SCSI controllers
get around this by using a driver when more that two hard drives (or
anything but a hard drive) is used with their bus cards.  This may be
the same for DTC.

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