Adding second HD under ISC 2.0.2

Alex Beylin alexb at cfctech.cfc.com
Thu Feb 14 03:35:08 AEST 1991


In article <CHRIS.91Feb12151909 at endgame.gsfc.nasa.gov> chris at endgame.gsfc.nasa.gov (Chris Shenton) writes:
>In article <1991Feb12.150008.3737 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> brando at uicsl.csl.uiuc.edu (Brandon Brown) writes:
>
>Arrrrg. I've got ISC 2.0.2 with a WD AT style controller, and I've been
>thinking of getting a SCSI controller and big Conner disk. You're saying
>this won't work?
>
>What if I make the SCSI primary, and the AT secondary?
>--
>chris at asylum.gsfc.nasa.gov, ...!uunet!asylum.gsfc.nasa.gov!chris, PITCH::CHRIS

That won't work even with ISC 2.2. As specified in the manual (and tried),
MFM must be the primary controller.  There is a possibility of adding
the MFM controller after the system is loaded, but no-one that I know of have
tried that yet.  

-- Alex Beylin
   alexb at cfctech.cfc.com



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