From: firehawk@polaris.unm.edu (-* FireHawk *-) Subject: Re: Two different harddisks? Date: 27 Jan 1993 15:13:20 GMT
In article <1993Jan27.025141.12352@colorado.edu> drew@romeo.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) writes:
:In article <THIELOPH.93Jan25181331@crypt5.cs.uni-sb.de> thieloph@crypt5.cs.uni-sb.de (Christoph Thiel) writes:
:>
:>I am a happy owner of a 386DX 25Mhz with 80MB MFM-Harddisk. Is there any
:>possibility to install a second harddisk (IDE, SCSI with a second
:>controller?) and to use it with Linux.
:
:IDE : You'd need a controller that could run at a secondary
:address, on a different interrupt (or at a different address with
:the different interrupt acomplished with a cut and jump). You would
:also have to do some kernel work to get the second controller supported
:(This has been done, I don't know who did it or where you can get
:the results from).
I am interested in finding out how this was done. If anyone has this info,
could they be kind enough to pass it along this way? I have one of these
special IDE controllers. MSDOS seems to have no problem acknowledging the
existence of the second hard drive. I've devoted most of the IDE to DOS but
I would like to mount a small Linux extended partition on it. If anyone knows
how to get Linux to acknowledge the second hard drive's existence, please let
me know? I have the port address its controller card and the memory address
of the card's BIOS. Please forward all responses to this question via email
if possible. Thanks in advance! =)