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From: wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne L. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Using IDE and MFM Drives together
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Date: 31 May 91 15:46:38 GMT
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In article <1991May30.181823.55145@uvmark.uucp> ray@uvmark.uucp (Ray Daignault) writes:
>
>I have just purchased a 386sx computer with a 100MB IDE hard drive.  However,
>from an old XT at home I have 2 Seagate 251-1 MFM hard drives. I would like
>to add the Seagate drives to my system for secondary storage.
>
>  Does anyone know if it is possible to combien both an MFM and IDE disk
>drive on the same system?  The PC I purchased is using the AWARD bios with
>the IDE disk controller on the motherboard.

I don't see how.  You can set up your bios info about both drives all right,
but either the MFM and IDE/drive controllers will conflict with each other,
or the MFM controller will try to access the second MFM drive, which isin't
there.  You may get around this if you can set either the the IDE or the
MFM controller to respond as a secondary controller.  I am in the same
situation, and if I can dig up the specs for my mfm controller (which is
integrated into my Western Digital mother board), I'll try it.