pnl@hpfinote.HP.COM (Peter Lim) (05/04/90)
> > I want to be able to put a standard Western Digital IBM PC/AT 2 floppy > f hard drive (MFM) controller card (e.g. the WD 1006 VMM2) PLUS an > Adaptec 2070 (8-bit, out of date and out of production and no > longer supported by its own manufacturer, sigh) RLL controller card > in to a pretty standard 80386-SX AT-bus clone, so that I can get > more than two hard drives in the system (I run Unix and need disk > space but don't want to spend money and I have this extra 2070 board > to play with) - if anyone has any real experience and suggestions on > this I'd be much appreciative; Western Digital and Adaptex are > both very happy to sell me new controllers, but that defeats the > purpose of tdoing this dirt-cheaply. Any other inexpensive solutions > would be appreciated as well! > Well, assuming your RLL card is fully functional and that you know how to get it up and running with the particular OS you intend to run; I would say, pull out the MFM controller, stick in the RLL controller and reformat the two drive to increase capacity by 50% (assuming your MFM drive will work with RLL format) .... which is a hell of a lot of assumption :-). Want to put more than 2 HD's ?? *NO CAN DO*. For controllers, MFM, RLL & ESDI *DO NOT* live together happily (period). If you really want, a SCSI controller and drive is the only possible addition. Regards, ## Life is fast enough as it is ........ Peter Lim. ## .... DON'T PUSH IT !! >>>-------, ########################################### : E-mail: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM Snail-mail: Hewlett Packard Singapore, : Tel: (065)-279-2289 (ICDS, ICS) | Telnet: 520-2289 1150 Depot Road, __\@/__ ... also at: pnl@hpfipnl.HP.COM Singapore 0410. SPLAT !