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From: jdeitch@jadpc.cts.com (Jim Deitch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: 2 hardrives of different interfaces allowed to coexist?
Message-ID: <12@jadpc.cts.com>
Date: 29 Aug 90 03:23:24 GMT
References: <1990Aug22.061223.15564@fiver> <1106@upvax.UUCP> <1586@redsox.bsw.com>
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Organization: Network Engineering Technologies, San DIego, CA
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In article <1586@redsox.bsw.com> campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell) writes:
>In article <1106@upvax.UUCP> stevewa@upvax.UUCP (Steve Ward) writes:
>-
>-Is there anyone out there who has two controllers (SCSI doesn't count!)
>-running in the same box happily???
>
>I have a WD1007A and a WD1007V (both ESDI) running in the same box -- the
>box I'm typing on right now.  It works fine.  I'm running ISC 386/ix
>V2.0.2.  I did not have to disable the floppy part of the second controller,
>either -- I just set its I/O ports to the secondary addresses.  (I have not,
>however, hooked a floppy driver up to it to see if it would actually work.)
>
>The only annoyance about this is that the WD1007A *must* be the boot
>controller, since you can't change its IRQ line, and ISC insists that
>controller 0 be on IRQ14 and controller 1 on IRQ 15.
>-- 

I have 2 WD1006MV-2's in the same box with no problems.  I had to
cut a trace and solder a wire on one for IRQ 15 and set one of the
floppy controllers to the secondary address.
Running  ISC 2.0.2  and  SCO Xenix 2.3.X  and under SCO Unix.


Jim


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