as2d+@andrew.cmu.edu (Alan Henry Stein) (07/19/89)
I am planning on installing a seagate 157n (48meg scsi) drive in my machine. I also want to put in my old seagate 238 (30 meg MFM) and 3 floppies. The STo2 will support two of the floppies. Now I need a controller to handle the other hard drive and one more floppy. Will the seagate scsi controllers happily coexist with the other controller?? DO I have to use one of the controllers designed to coexist with other (read as RLL/MFM) controllers?? Thanks, alan
jbh@trsvax.UUCP (07/20/89)
alan, I have a CompuAdd 12 Mhz 286 clone, with a Seagate ST251-1 and a Seagate ST296N. The 251-1 was connected to a Western Digital cntrlr (model number unknown), the 296N was connected to a ST01 host adapter. Disk Manager software, provided with both disks, handled everything just fine. I had two floppies connected to the WD cntrlr. Whether both the WD cntrlr and the ST02 host adapter can be used to control floppies at the same time, I do not know. BTW, when the 296N was formatted, Disk manager split the partitions up between the two drives. C: and E: were on the 251-1, while D:, F:, and G: were on the 296N. But everything worked just fine. Hope this helps. Brad
William.Cummins@bigtime.fidonet.org (William Cummins) (07/22/89)
The Seagate scsi controler dosen't seem to like to be in a machine with
other hd controlers at least the WD3 that I had in it wouldn't work I
would get the person selling you the stuff to warent that it will work
before you lay down the $$$$ WAC
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via Big Time Television (bigtime.fidonet.org, 1:152/201)john@foil.UUCP (John Cavanaugh) (07/22/89)
In an article of <18 Jul 89 17:48:25 GMT>, as2d+@andrew.cmu.edu (Alan Henry Stein) writes: >I am planning on installing a seagate 157n (48meg scsi) drive in my machine. >I also want to put in my old seagate 238 (30 meg MFM) and 3 floppies. > >The STo2 will support two of the floppies. Now I need a controller to handle >the other hard drive and one more floppy. Will the seagate scsi controllers >happily coexist with the other controller?? DO I have to use one of the >controllers designed to coexist with other (read as RLL/MFM) controllers?? > I just installed a ST02+ST296N combination in my machine where I already have a Western Digital controler + ST251 and have had no problems with anything. I have the 251 partitioned up into 32 and 9Mb partitions as C and D while the 296 is divided up into 32/32/17 as E, F and G. I only have 1 diskette drive [1.2Mb] that runs off of the WD controler but I don't see why the SCSI controler should have any problems with the other diskette drives....But then again....I could be wrong. Anyone else out there had experience with this? >Thanks, >alan No problem. -- John Cavanaugh - via GT<->Usenet Test System - Portland, Oregon UUCP: ...!tektronix!tessi!agora!foil!john -- GT Net/Node: 056/002
greg@dekalb.UUCP (Greg Philmon) (07/24/89)
In article <560.24C7CA4E@bigtime.fidonet.org> William.Cummins@bigtime.fidonet.org (William Cummins) writes: >The Seagate scsi controler dosen't seem to like to be in a machine with >other hd controlers at least the WD3 that I had in it wouldn't work I >would get the person selling you the stuff to warent that it will work >before you lay down the $$$$ WAC I have a 296N w/ the st01 SCSI controller, as well as a WD AT hard/ floppy controller running an ST-225. It DID take some a while to figure out how to make it work, though. Note that this is on an AT, it might not work w/ an XT. Send mail if you're interested in the details. -- --------------------------------------------------------- | Greg Philmon ...gatech!dekalb!greg CIS: 72261,1724 | ---------------------------------------------------------