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From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: More than two HDDs  (was Re: IDE vs SCSI vs ESDI vs ???)
Message-ID: <1991Jun2.161400.16398@unixland.natick.ma.us>
Organization: Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix
References: <1991May29.194400.8044@aero.org> <43881@netnews.upenn.edu> <1991May30.191724.21710@crash.cts.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 91 16:14:00 GMT

In article <1991May30.191724.21710@crash.cts.com> lairdb@crash.cts.com (Laird P. Broadfield) writes:
>
>That's about what I would have said, from the experiences I've had.  My 
>question is how do you manage more then two physical drives in the AT
>architecture?  The built-in setups invariably only specify two physical
>HDD units; are we talking about device drivers here?  If so, how do you

If you use SCSI, you can just daisy-chain the drives.  I think with DOS
you need to use a special driver if you have more than two drives.  With
Unix, you just plug and play, and hope the drives happily co-exist with
each other.

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