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From: akm@geriatrix.cs.uoregon.edu (Anant Kartik Mithal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.windows.ms
Subject: MFM + SCSI
Summary: is MFM + SCSI Possible? With Windows
Keywords: MFM SCSI Hard disk
Message-ID: <1991Mar31.081159.8859@cs.uoregon.edu>
Date: 31 Mar 91 08:11:59 GMT
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Hi,

I have an MFM AT controller with two ST-251-1s running off it. I need
to add more disk space, and I don't want to get rid of my old disks.
(We've come a long way together...) So, my question is: can I add SCSI
to my machine? i.e., can I add a SCSI controller which doesn't have a
built-in floppy controller and a SCSI hard disk? My existing MFM
controller has dual floppy control.

If so, how will such a device work (i.e. how will dos and Windows know
about the SCSI disk)a? Will I have to add a device driver (which will
run off my existing drive c), which will then allow dos to access the
SCSI disk? And, will this run under windows? I seem to recall hearing
that there are problems between windows and SCSI disks.  What SCSI
disk + controller combinations are recommended? I am looking for ~80
meg at ~ 20 ms access time. I have a free 1/2 height drive slot, and
this is running on a 20 Mhz 386 motherboard.

Is there any other way of adding disk space to my machine?

Thanks for any and all help.

kartik
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Anant Kartik Mithal                                     akm@cs.uoregon.edu
Research Assistant, 					(503)346-4408 (msgs)
Department of Computer Science,                         (503)346-3989 (direct)
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1202