From: drew@caesar.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) Subject: Re: ST-506 and IDE Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1993 07:12:47 GMT
In article <20kq8m$rf5@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> barspi@wam.umd.edu (Barzilai Spinak) writes:
> I have a computer with a 80mb disk drive. It's an oldie Seagate 4096 and
>I think it uses the st-506 interface. I want to add an IDE drive.
>Can these two work together?
Yes, contingent on you choosing the right controllers and/or making
the appropriate hardware modifications and applying the second controller
patches.
You must be able to jumper one controller at both a secondary address
AND interrupt - many disk controllers can do the former, but not
the later, in which case you have to perform surgery with an Exacto
knife and conductive pen.
>Can Linux use both, the st-506 and the ide, at the same time?
Yes.
>(one as hda and the other as hdb).
If you've got it set up the "official" way, one would be hda, the other
hd1a.
>What I would like to do is to leave
>DOS/Windows in the old disk and put Linux in the new one.
>Can LILO handle that?
- If you have BIOS support for both controllers.
- If you put boot images on a small partition (ie, a "mini-root")
on the first disk (BIOS supported) and mount the rest of Linux from
the other.
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