Adding a second IDE harddrive question

John C. Archambeau jca at pnet01.cts.com
Wed Feb 20 00:56:04 AEST 1991


vandyke at carina.unm.edu (Jeff VanDyke) writes:
>I have a 386 box running Interactive UNIX 3.2.2.  I currently
>have a 200Mb conners harddrive.  I would like to add a second
>IDE 200Mb harddrive.  My dealer thinks unless both harddrives
>are identical it plain won't work.

It should work with no problem.  You just configure the second drive as a
slave drive and make sure the one you want to boot from is configured as a
master drive in a dual hard drive configuration.  If your dealer won't help
you, I'm sure that the hard drive manufacturer will.

     // JCA

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