prkeen@nuchat.UUCP (Phillip Keen) (03/21/89)
I presently have 2 40 Megabyte Seagate Hard Disk drives with a Purstore ARLL controller card which brings me up to 150 megabytes. I am about to upgrade to UNIX and would like to ad another hard disk drive. I know that the controller card can only hold 2 hard disk drives, or at least that's the way most controller cards are. Will I have any problems adding another controller card. BTW--I'm presently using an IBM AT Clone. Phillip Keen
davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (Wm. E. Davidsen Jr) (03/25/89)
In article <5152@nuchat.UUCP> prkeen@nuchat.UUCP (Phillip Keen) writes: | | I presently have 2 40 Megabyte Seagate Hard Disk drives with a | Purstore ARLL controller card which brings me up to 150 megabytes. I | am about to upgrade to UNIX and would like to ad another hard disk drive. | I know that the controller card can only hold 2 hard disk drives, or at | least that's the way most controller cards are. Will I have any problems | adding another controller card. BTW--I'm presently using an IBM AT Clone. You may have more troubles than you know. If you have the Purstor which requires a separate floppy controller, you may not be able to run UNIX at all. I had that one, and it just doesn't look like a standard WD controller enough to run UNIX. There is a version with FD on the controller which is claimed to run UNIX, but I haven't tried it. I'm not sure I have the guts to reformat my old disks again, they're working okay RLL. -- bill davidsen (wedu@crd.GE.COM) {uunet | philabs}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me