Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!spool.mu.edu!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ccut!wnoc-tyo-news!astemgw!kuis!aegis!davidg From: davidg%aegis.or.jp@kyoto-u.ac.jp (Dave McLane) Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,sub.os.unix Subject: Re: ISC 3.2/harddisk & floppy problems Message-ID: Date: 14 Jun 91 20:51:27 GMT References: <113@odiehh.hanse.de> Organization: Aegis Society Lines: 21 marzusch@odiehh.hanse.de (Ralph-Diether Marzusch) writes: > 2nd problem: > If you connect two (!) hard disk drives to one (ore even two) `standard' > AT type hard disk controller (i.e. MFM, RLL or ESDI drives) you may > experience a `hanging' disk controller (making any further disk accesses > impossible which possibly destroys one or more file systems) when both > disks are accessed concurrently (to reproduce this problem try to enable > an additional swap partition on the second volume, this will cause lots > of disk accesses on both disks when the system starts paging or swapping Sorry, I came in late on this one but did anyone report problems with one ESDI and one IDE? or one ESDI and one SCSI I have a 320MB ESDI running and want to add another disk a Dell System 333D and ISC 2.2.1.... Dave -- Dave McLane