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From: mark@physchem.ox.ac.uk (Mark Jackson)
Subject: Re: SCSI/DOS/adding a 3rd drive..?!@#$
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 07:02:30 GMT
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In article <1r74fr$d04@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM>, maf@Corp.Sun.COM (Mike Figueroa) writes:
> 
> Does anyone know if there are any problems (or if it's possible)
> adding a third hard drive(scsi) to a dos pc.
> 
> I currently have a 386 pc with  Future Domain scsi board  and  2
> Maxtor  scsi  drives  installed.  They work great, I haven't had
> any problems!
> 
> Well, now I want more disk space and went out and  got   another
> (larger)  scsi   hard  disk  thinking all I had to do was add it
> to the chain(50pin ribbon  that  has  3  connectors)   and   run
> the   fdisk   program   to format/initialize the disk.
> 
> That didn't happen.  When the pc boots, the  scsi  prom   shoots
> back   the  devices   that   are  attached  to  the board[target
> 0/target1/target2].  All three disks are seen.
> 
> When I run the dos fdisk program to format the disk, I choose to
> select another  disk(option  5(dos6)) and voila, it's not there.
> The first two disks show up no problem, but the  third  disk  is
> no-where to be found....
> 
> 
> 
> ARGH!
> 
> Ideas anyone?????
> 
> Thanks in advance!


I have got an Adaptec SCSI card, that comes with its own version of FDISK.
The problem with DOS is that it will only see two hard disks, any more need to be
done by device drivers.

-- 
Mark 
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