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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Adding a second IDE harddrive question
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Date: 20 Feb 91 21:36:01 GMT
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rreiner@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Richard Reiner) writes:
>jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:
>
>>It should work with no problem.  You just configure the second drive as a
>>slave drive and make sure the one you want to boot from is configured as a
>>master drive in a dual hard drive configuration.  If your dealer won't help
>>you, I'm sure that the hard drive manufacturer will.
>
>What about the cable?  Is it just a straight daisy chain, or does the
>second connector get a twist?  If so, which leads are twisted?

Straight daisy chain.  The master/slave configuration of the drive handles the
rest.

     // JCA

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