mccarthy@well.sf.ca.us (Patrick McCarthy) (01/05/91)
I recently purchased an IDE drive, which I would like to use in conjunction with my existing MFM drive. My MFM controller has the ability to function at a different base address, but this doesn't seem to help. Everyone I've talked to says they've heard it's possible, but none have ever actually done it. Anyone have any practical experience/advice? Thanks, Pat McCarthy mccarthy@well.sf.ca.us
gwoho@nntp-server.caltech.edu (g liu) (01/06/91)
mccarthy@well.sf.ca.us (Patrick McCarthy) writes: >I recently purchased an IDE drive, which I would like to use in >conjunction with my existing MFM drive. My MFM controller has the >ability to function at a different base address, but this doesn't >seem to help. Everyone I've talked to says they've heard it's possible, >but none have ever actually done it. >Anyone have any practical experience/advice? you can do it if you write your own device driver, and set the dip switches right, something i would rather not do, so i haven't. if you have a copy of the yellow minix operating system book from prentice hall, it have the source of a hd device driver in it. i dont know how dos device drivers are put together, though. if anyone knows an easier way, please let me know. i also want to use a mfm+ide in my machine. >Thanks, >Pat McCarthy >mccarthy@well.sf.ca.us