Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bu-cs!madd
From: madd@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Jim Frost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ...now it's time for STUPID HARD DISK TRICKS!!!!
Message-ID: <21572@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 12 Apr 88 23:55:57 GMT
References: <1683@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: madd@bu-it.bu.edu (Jim Frost)
Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Organization: Boston University Distributed Systems Group
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In article <1683@ut-emx.UUCP> emp@ut-emx.UUCP (emp) writes:
|...I'm currently using a miniscribe 30-meg HD with a Tandem controller. I
|have access to either a 20 or a 10-meg HD sans controller (Miniscribe and
|IBM makes, respectively), and what I want to know is can you mis-balance
|twin HD's? Can you have a 20 and a 30 on the same controller card?

Sure, you just have to tell the controller about which is which.  We
have both 20 and 72 Mb drives on our AT; we merely had to tell the
SETUP program which drive types they were.

Exactly how you do this is related to what kind of PC/controller you
have -- consult your manual for more specific information on your
machine and controller.

jim frost
madd@bu-it.bu.edu