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From: vause@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM (Sam Vause)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ncr
Subject: Re: 380MB Disc Question
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.135618.21988@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM>
Date: 4 Feb 91 13:56:18 GMT
References: <341@gandp>
Reply-To: vause@cs-col.Columbia.NCR.COM (Sam Vause)
Organization: Corporate Customer Services NCR E&M Columbia, SC
Lines: 31

In article <341@gandp> rg@gandp.UUCP (Dick Gill) writes:
>
>A client with a 32/650 has just upgraded from a 380MB to a 760MB hard
>disc. I have the trade in disc and wonder if it might be made to work
>in my in-house system. The disc is an NCR 380 SCSI (Maxtor XP-4380S)
>with all original mounting hardware. 
>
>My in-house system is a Tower-XP upgraded with a PMC-III to a 32/600.
>It has 4MB of memory, 2xHPSIO(8), a 40MB tape, one 85MB hard disc
>and one 140MB hard disc. The OS is 2.2.1.  Aside from the PMC & OS
>upgrade, the system is as we bought it many moons ago.
>
>I would love to retire the 85MB disc in favor of the 380MB one;
>if need be, I would scrap both current discs in order to run the
>larger SCSI drive.  I would also love to move up to a 150MB tape, 
>but must retain the 40MB model and floppy drive to support clients. 
>
>Is this as simple as adding a SCSI controller?  Is this an easy  
>task or a difficult one?
>
>Thanks for your thoughts.

Well, looks like the only hardware you will need to add is the
internal SCSI controller.  For software, you will need to install
OS 3.00.02...
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