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- From: eduomo@ref.tfs.com (Ed Duomo)
- Subject: **** IDE + XT RLL: Heeeelp! ****
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 23:06:42 GMT
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-
- (The first time I posted this didn't seem to go through, sorry if you
- have to see it twice).
-
- I have a Seagate ST1239A drive (IDE, 210MB) that I'd like to use
- together with a Miniscribe 70MB unit driven by an Adaptec RLL XT
- (8-bit) controller in 386 machine (AMI BIOS). My understanding is that
- although IDE controllers are picky about co-existing with other units,
- they have no problem if the other controller bypasses the BIOS (like
- SCSI and XT controllers).
-
- However, my tries have been in vainn so far. I tried setting the IDE
- controller to use the secondary address and the IDE drive to be either
- slave drive or just in a normal IDE single drive mode, but no go.
- Either I get a HDD controller error or the drive is not recognized.
- Both drives work flawlessly if each was the only drive installed in
- the system. I called the tech support of Hard Drives International
- (the place I purchased thge IDE drive from), but the person I talked
- to didn't give me a satifactory answer -- "if you try it and it
- doesn't work, it probably won't work", said he without asking a single
- question about my setup. I'm sure I'll fare much better from the
- gentile experts of the net (a little bit of kissing up never hurts,
- right? :-).
-
- So there you have it: is it realistic to expect the two units to work
- together? If yes, how does one go about achieving that? (an additional
- complication is that I no longer have the manual of the Adaptec
- controller, <sigh>).
-
- Thanks a lot.
-
-