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- From: cambria@smaug.enet.dec.com (Michael C. Cambria)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: IDE and SCSI together???
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.184116.5831@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 17:40:14 GMT
- References: <1992Dec23.165027.37184@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec23.165027.37184@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>, lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (BRIAN PAUL VAN LIEU) writes...
- >
- > Hi folks,
- >
- > I am a bit confused about some stuff I have read lately. I had always
- > thought that you could nave one and only one controler card. I read an
- > article the other day that clearly said 'Both an IDE and a SCSI card
- > can co-exhist peacefully'.
- >
- > Is this true, especially under OS/2?
- >
- > I am contemplating buying a CD-ROM, and I want to upgrade my system to
- > a SCSI drive over the summer, but all I have now is an IDE drive. I
- > was thinking of getting the Adaptec 1542b card, and running the CD off
- > of that. DO I also need to get a SCSI HD, or will OS/2 pick up the IDE
- > drive and its controller too? (I know an IDE drive can not run off of
- > a SCSI card...)
- >
- > This might sould like a silly question, but the things I have read,
- > and been told, conflict.
- >
- > cheers,
- >
- > bvl
- >--
- >
- > Brian P. Van Lieu
- > Lehigh University-AXP
- > lbv2@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu
- >
- > OS/2 2.0...anything else is just a DOS.
-
- I run both IDE and SCSI (Future Domain 1680) in my Gateway 2000 386/33
- with no problems. I have a 120MB IDE & 520 SCSI disk. No CD yet. Its
- in the mail.
-
- I have FAT & HPFS on partitions on both physical disks. OS/2 has no
- problems at all in this configuration.
-
- /Mike
-