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From: peter@citylink.dinoex.sub.org (Peter Much)
Subject: Re: Two hard disk controllers ??
Organization: Buero fuer Sektenforschung und Qualitaetspruefung in der Esoterik
Message-ID: <DCGE7r.AIG@citylink.dinoex.sub.org>
References: <3v22ai$11j@news.cis.nctu.edu.tw> <DCD2wu.J0@theatre.pandora.sax.de>
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 01:16:39 GMT
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In article <DCD2wu.J0@theatre.pandora.sax.de>,
Martin Welk <mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de> wrote:
>You see, you _can_ have two IDE adapters. Usually they're at I/O
>addresses 1F0-1FF and 170-17F, as far as I remember (cannot look
>it up now, sorry.) If your IDE adapter supports this, you can do
>it. But be careful when you buy another IDE adapter: you can run
>some as secondary on the 2nd I/O address, but you can't change
>the interrupt. There's a lot of garbage available :-(
If one has some hardware-freak in reach (or is one), and wants to
save money, one can even do this with two (old) standard IDE con-
trollers and a 7400 circuit to invert one adress line (so that 170
looks like 1F0 to the card and vice versa).
Runs fine here.
Peter
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