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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: info on hard disk & controller
Message-ID: <3861@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 7 May 91 02:49:10 GMT
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In article <9658@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL> efb@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL (Everett F Batey II) writes:

|  - CAN I ADD SCSI disk beyond my 2+2 without doing the IRQ war ?
|   -- ( I need to save an IRQ for being a network [TOPS] server, later. )

  IRQ is not used by DOS, so you should not have a problem with it.
However, in case you want to run UNIX later you want a 16 bit controller
which can do interrupts on the "high" IRQs. I *think* Adaptek does this,
and they make a controller with no floppies, or used to.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
    sysop *IX BBS and Public Access UNIX
    moderator of comp.binaries.ibm.pc and 80386 mailing list
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me