Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!ihuxy!nowlin
From: nowlin@ihuxy.ATT.COM (Jerry Nowlin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: AT&T 6300+ Hard Disks
Keywords: 6300+, hard disks
Message-ID: <2350@ihuxy.ATT.COM>
Date: 21 Jan 88 18:10:03 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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	I have a 6300+ from AT&T and would like some additional mass
storage for it.  It already has one 20M internal hard disk.  What I'd
really like is to be able to stick a 40M hard disk card into a slot and
have it peacefully coexist with the current hard disk.  I boot UNIX off of
the internal drive and only have 1.5M of hard disk space left for MS-DOS. 
I'd like to boot MS-DOS from a floppy and then be able to run on the hard
disk card.

I tried this with a PLUS 40M hard card and it was a real disaster.  I
couldn't even get the 6300+ to recognize the drive.  Has anyone actually
gotten a hard card to work in conjunction with an existing internal hard
disk on a 6300+?  I want to emphasize the + since I've seen this working on
a plain 6300 but couldn't make the same disk card work on a +.

I'd actually settle for any kind of hard disk that will work at the same
time as the internal drive.  I would appreciate it if people could respond
with configurations that they KNOW work rather than suggestions of things
to try.  I'm interested in a tried and true solution, not "this might work"
type scenarios.

I'm almost desperate.  I can no longer stand running MS-DOS off of a single
floppy and using Simultask under UNIX is worse than MS-DOS with both arms
tied behind it's back. Please email me your replys and I'll post any
information I get back to this group in a week or so.  Thanks.

Jerry Nowlin
(...!ihnp4!ihuxy!nowlin)