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From: cmv@ihlpm.ATT.COM (C M Votava)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: Submission for Unix-PC
Message-ID: <1902@ihlpm.ATT.COM>
Date: 25 May 88 14:01:01 GMT
References: <8805231516.AA00342@eplrx7.UUCP>
Reply-To: cmv@ihlpm.UUCP (C M Votava)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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In article <8805231516.AA00342@eplrx7.UUCP> gatelist@zorch.UU.NET writes:
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>The UNIX PC cannot support two drives.  Period.

Oops, this is not exactly true. From what little information I've been able
to gather, there was a field upgrade that Convergent *informally* had out
just before the unixpc was dropped, that would allow you to have two, and only
two hard disks attached to your machine. As far as I can guess, they did
some fancy magic with the hardware status bits that have one bit for the floppy
(0/1 for on/off) and one for the hard disk (0/1 for on or off) and hacked it
so it would work (0-0 for hard disk number 2).


>They have also developed a SCSI plug-in card for the 3b1.  I have had one
>for a month (I'm a beta site for them) and it works great.  In case anyone
>is interested their phone # is 302 731 1583.

This is a very nice piece of news, much appreciation for posting it. Is this
company going to market the card? Do they have a good number of drivers 
written for it? What do you have running off of your card, and how well does
it work?

-Craig Votava

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