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From: dck@cbnewsh.att.com (david.c.kwong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: BIOS ... more than 3 disks?
Keywords: BIOS, SCSI hard disks
Message-ID: <1991Apr6.223727.6690@cbnewsh.att.com>
Date: 6 Apr 91 22:37:27 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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Are all BIOS's on the PC limited to 2 hard disks?
I have 2 MFM hard disks as drives c: and d:.
When I added in a Seagate ST01 SCSI controller, my
(AT-clone) won't boot up but gives a disk controller error message.
But if I go into the firmware setup and delete drive d:,
then it boots up and recognizes the ST01 and its SCSI disks
but I cannot access my old drive d:.
Is this a BIOS limitation?  Is there a way to get around it?
Thanks in advance.
					D. C. Kwong
					att!mink!dck