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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Buying UNIX for a clone
Message-ID: <3873@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 91 00:00:13 GMT
References: <1991Apr28.025344.27664@virtech.uucp> <1991Apr28.125712.1870@nstar.rn.com> <1991Apr28.235013.8239@virtech.uucp> <1991Apr29.193616.3624@pmafire.inel.gov> <42019@cup.portal.com> <1991May05.214956.27289@nstar.rn.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <1991May05.214956.27289@nstar.rn.com> larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:

| >3) Can additional SCSI HDD drives be used with the IDE drive ?
| 
| I would suggest replacing the IDE since more than likely that
| will need to be your boot device (since it is set in CMOS and
| the drives on the 1542 aren't).

   I agree. I think it can be done with two controllers, but there's
something funny in the Dell handling of multiple drives, and I can't
find it in my notes. Something like you must have a UNIX partition on
every drive, or must have DOS on the first if you have it anywhere,
or... something unintuitive.
-- 
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