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From: rdw2030@venus.tamu.edu (WIDRIG, RAQUEL DAWN)
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Subject: Hard drive queries
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Date: 6 Dec 90 04:17:42 GMT
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Some questions...

Is it possible to have more than one hard drive controller in a given system? 
I know you probably can, but all my attempts have failed.  Is it necessary to
use up both "spaces" on the first card before installing a second?

To elaborate a bit, our 386 clone has an IDE card, and I have recently
acquired an MFM drive.  How can I install the MFM and make that drive D?

To further this thing a bit more... I ALSO have another 40 Meg IDE drive that
I want to add to the system.  I can connect both drives to the IDE board, but
the system never will acknowledge the second drive.  I tell SETUP about it 
(both are 40 Meg type 17s) but get the DISK FAILURE error on boot.  When I
go into FDISK and try to select the next drive, I get "Unable to access drive
2" or something like that.

The drive presently in the system is a Conner CP344.  The one I want to add is
a Conner CP342.  I think that the problem may be in the jumper settings, because
the second Conner does not have the jumpers labeled, and there are only three
compared to the four on the first Conner (marked HSP C/D DSP ACT).  On the
second Conner, I have determined which jumper to remove so it isn't treated as
the active drive.  What next?  Does anyone know the settings to help me out?

Once that is solved... we are back to the MFM.  Will I be able to drop in an
MFM controller with the rest of this mess?  This drive is a Seagate ST-251 on
a Western Digital WD1003WAH controller.

Help... I am so frustrated with all this!  Is there an FTP site with some
files describing some of the more difficult aspects of hard drive installation?

Please reply to these questions on the net, as I'm sure others will benefit 
from this.

Thanks a ton!

Mark C. Lowe - KB5III

RDW2030@TAMVENUS.BITNET