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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: MOre than two fixed disks?
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Date: 16 Jan 91 21:16:01 GMT
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mcl9337@harpo.tamu.edu (LOWE, MARK CHRISTOPHER) writes:
>I have a 386 clone with Phoenix BIOS.  We already have two IDE drives installed
>and would like another.  Of course, the BIOS will only recognize two fixed
>disks.  Is there a driver of some sort that will allow me to have more than
>two?  Or is there a simpler method that I'm just not aware of??

Not with IDE.  Unless someone has developed an IDE adaptor with an on-board
BIOS that will allow MS-DOS to recognize the adaptor at a secondary port
address and IRQ.

The current implementation of IDE calls only for a single adaptor that handles
only two hard drives; a master and slave.

     // JCA

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