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From: darren@bacchus (Darren Friedlein)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: 2 HDs??????
Message-ID: <373@bacchus>
Date: 3 May 88 01:51:18 GMT
Organization: The Humanities Forum - Research Triangle Park; Durham, NC
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Hmmmmm.... Just looking through <sys/gdioctl.h> and <sys/gdisk.h> and
there are several refercences to a second hard drive.  Anyone tried this?
Could it be as simple as swapping a daisy-chain HD cable for the one that's
in there?  Then what to do about a 2nd control (data?) cable.

Also - I'm not familiar with DMA operations on the UNINpc and don't have
the specs for the WD2797, but it seems that it wouldn't be hard to write a
utility to write complete blocks to the floppy (direct memory to disk
transfer via. DMA) at a fast rate - - maybe the start of a fast HD backup
system (I sure could use one).  Is ther anyone out there who knows how to
put something like this together?

-Darren
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