2 hardrives of different interfaces allowed to coexist?

[Jim Deitch]

In article <1586 at redsox.bsw.com> campbell at redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell) writes:
>In article <1106 at upvax.UUCP> stevewa at upvax.UUCP (Steve Ward) writes:
>-
>-Is there anyone out there who has two controllers (SCSI doesn't count!)
>-running in the same box happily???
>
>I have a WD1007A and a WD1007V (both ESDI) running in the same box -- the
>box I'm typing on right now.  It works fine.  I'm running ISC 386/ix
>V2.0.2.  I did not have to disable the floppy part of the second controller,
>either -- I just set its I/O ports to the secondary addresses.  (I have not,
>however, hooked a floppy driver up to it to see if it would actually work.)
>
>The only annoyance about this is that the WD1007A *must* be the boot
>controller, since you can't change its IRQ line, and ISC insists that
>controller 0 be on IRQ14 and controller 1 on IRQ 15.
>-- 

I have 2 WD1006MV-2's in the same box with no problems.  I had to
cut a trace and solder a wire on one for IRQ 15 and set one of the
floppy controllers to the secondary address.
Running  ISC 2.0.2  and  SCO Xenix 2.3.X  and under SCO Unix.


Jim


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