Xref: utzoo comp.unix.sysv386:4926 comp.periphs.scsi:1894 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!clyde.concordia.ca!nstn.ns.ca!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.iastate.edu!sharkey!nstar!larry From: larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.periphs.scsi Subject: Re: Adding second HD under ISC 2.0.2 Message-ID: <1991Feb14.134120.5305@nstar.rn.com> Date: 14 Feb 91 13:41:20 GMT References: <1991Feb12.065726.5497@foster.avid.oz.au> <1991Feb12.150008.3737@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Feb13.163508.27935@cfctech.cfc.com> Organization: Northern Star Communications, Limited Lines: 18 alexb@cfctech.cfc.com (Alex Beylin) writes: >That won't work even with ISC 2.2. As specified in the manual (and tried), >MFM must be the primary controller. There is a possibility of adding >the MFM controller after the system is loaded, but no-one that I know of have >tried that yet. we at one time were booting off a 1542A (SCSI) and had a 2372B (RLL) installed as the secondary controller (secondary addressing, secondary interrupts - and floppy controller disabled by cutting traces). We had to change some of the addressing in /etc/conf/sdevices.d to match what we had done - but it is possible with a little work (we did this only once with 2.02 about 14 months ago).. -- Larry Snyder, NSTAR Public Access Unix 219-289-0287 (HST/PEP/V.32/v.42bis) regional UUCP mapping coordinator {larry@nstar.rn.com, ..!uunet!nstar!larry, larry%nstar@iuva