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From: ching@brahms.amd.com (Mike Ching)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Mixing SCSI and other drive types
Message-ID: <1991Feb12.035112.8722@amd.com>
Date: 12 Feb 91 03:51:12 GMT
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In article <283400050@adaptx1> neese@adaptx1.UUCP writes:
>
>>/* ---------- "Mixing SCSI and Other Drive Types" ---------- */
>>Is it possible to mix MFM, RLL and SCSI drives together on the
>>same system.
>
>You can't mix anything on the same card. but a SCSI adapter can peacefully
>coexist with any other drive controller.  NOTE: I can only vouch for the
>154x/1640/1740 adapter from Adaptec.
I didn't try to find the source of the problem but was unable to use a
ST01 SCSI controller with a RLL controller. My assumption was that since
they both were loading a BIOS that the first one loaded was disconnected
by the second one to load.

Mike Ching