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From: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sidecar and second HD.
Message-ID: <721@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>
Date: 22 Jan 89 08:51:04 GMT
References: <5976.AA5976@heimat>
Reply-To: jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright)
Organization: Iowa State U. Computer Science Department, Ames, IA
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In article <5976.AA5976@heimat> sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein) writes:
>  No its not possible. MS-DOS machines do not allow for more than one (1) HD
>  controller per-machine. So you are limited to two (2) hard drives by MS-DOS
>  and not the Amiga.

Wrong.  You may have more than one hard drive controller in a IBM-PC.  I've
got a SCSI drive and a ST506 controller in my AT, and I've put MFM and RLL
controllers in a number of PC's.  It may or may not be a straight-forward
operation, depending on exact hardware and dealer support.  The biggest 
thing to watch out for is the memory mapped ROM-BIOS onboard the controllers.
They can't be in the same location.  (Obviously :-)

Since these controllers all supported more than two drives, you are not
limited to two by MS-DOS.  On the PC's, I ran *no* extra software.  It was
true-blue PC-DOS on true-blue PC's.

Sorry, but I don't know specifically about the Sidecar.  I would guess it
is possible (with appropriate controllers).