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Article #18986Tape Drive and a second IDE hard drive
From: Scott Harris
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:50
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:50
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Hi, I am thinking about getting a second IDE hard drive. My current configuration is that I have 2 floppies, and a single 80Meg (18ms) IDE hard drive. Is it pretty simple to get another IDE drive and plug it right in? I heard that I may have to worry about putting the faster one as the boot drive, or something like that. Also, I am thinking about getting a tape backup drive. Does anybody have any good recommendations? Things that I'm concerned about are: * Speed * Price (of course!) * Being able to easily plug it into my system The last point above is crucial. Does these tape drives come with their own card, or do they plug into the existing card (mine is going to be full), or can I use one of those fancy parallel port SCSI devices? Any help is much appreciated!! Please send replies to 'gt8389a@prism.gatech.edu' or post a follow-up article. Thanks again, Scott Harris -- Scott Harris Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA gt8389a@prism.gatech.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!usc!cs.utexas.edu!hermes.chpc.utexas.edu!news.utdallas.edu!corpgate!brtph560!batph8!batph5!harriss From: harriss@batph5.bnr.ca (Scott Harris) Subject: Tape Drive and a second IDE hard drive Message-ID: <1993Jan21.125016.26176@bnr.ca> Sender: harriss@batph5 (Scott Harris) Organization: BNR, Atlanta Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:50:16 GMT Lines: 28