mob@mit-amt.MIT.EDU (Mario O. Bourgoin) (10/20/86)
Hello, A while back, I posted an article about controlling two hard disks from an XT's Xebec controller card. Thanks for all the kind replies; it is perfectly possible to do this and I now know how. The problem that this was supposed to solve hasn't gone away though, so I'm back with more questions. Background: I'm part of a project which uses IBM XTs and PCJrs, the IBM Cluster and Network hardware and Novell NetWare to provide networking capabilities for PCJrs in an elementary school. The system clusters a set of PCJrs around an XT server and the XTs are networked together using bridges. Situation: We need extra storage space. The kids share the use of the XT server's hard disk and have managed to almost fill up most of the space available on them. The bridges that network the XTs are themselves XTs since we had nothing else to use for this purpose; these XT's hard disks are sitting unused. Problem: We need to control the bridge's hard disks from the server. Constraints: - We don't have money to buy other equipment. - We don't have expansion boxes for XTs. - An XT server can't be a bridge computer; a bridge computer can't be an XT server. - The XT servers need to retain use of their floppy drives since they are used to run system maintenance software. - The XT bridges need to retain use of their floppy drives since they are used to load the bridge software. Please help. --Mario O. Bourgoin