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From: sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Sidecar and second HD.
Message-ID: <6036.AA6036@heimat>
Date: 24 Jan 89 01:32:41 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Sneakers Computing
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In Message <721@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu>, jwright@atanasoff.cs.iastate.edu (Jim Wright) writes:

>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 :-)

  This is news to me (look of shock)!  Ive had several Messy-DOS machines that
  ive wanted to add more hard drives and could never get them to work.  I tried
  mixing Western Digital, Xebec, and other controllers - never any luck.

  Id be highly interested in receiving some mail with the details if you have
  time.

  Sneakers

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