Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!srm From: srm@dimacs.rutgers.edu (Scott R. Myers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: IDE/MFM drive and controller coexistence Message-ID: Date: 25 Sep 90 19:21:07 GMT References: <603@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM> <1990Sep24.190445.3643@uni-paderborn.de> Organization: Rutgers University Lines: 37 In article <1990Sep24.190445.3643@uni-paderborn.de> ill@uni-paderborn.de (Markus Illenseer) writes: > nyount@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM (Nelson Yount) writes: > > > >Does anyone out there know if it is possible to install an IDE drive and > >controller and an MFM drive and controller in the same system? > [stuff deleted] > >Nelson Yount nyount@secola.Columbia.NCR.COM > >NCR Corp. > >NPD-Columbia > > Never heard about this. The only Idea I have is to jumper the IDE drive as > master drive. (All IDE drives can be jumpered as master and as slave drive.) > CU, Markus I have an IDE controller card that will work as a secondary controller with anything else as a primary. It has an onboard BIOS to provide the info to DOS about its existence. I now have it running as a primary with no problems. In the next week or so I will be dropping in an ESDI controller as primary and testing it out. The controller is made be Silicon Valley Computer. I don't have there number on me but if you're interested send me E-mail and I'll get it for you. Hope this helps... srm -- Scott R. Myers Snail: 26 Stiles Street Phone:(201)882-3100 Apartment 18 Elizabeth, NJ 07201 Arpa: srm@dimacs.rutgers.edu Uucp: ..!dimacs!srm "... No matter where you go, there you are ..."