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IDE & ESDI Coexistence

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From: robert hofmann
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 21:40
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  I currently have a DTK 386/25 computer with 44 meg Seagate IDE drive
, a 3.5 inch high cdensity flopy drive, and a 5.25 inch high density
floppy drive.  My roommate is a comp. sci. major and got an old IBM
RT from the school for free and we want to try to use some of the 
equipment from the RT in our AT clones.  My problem is this:

The RT has about 700 megs of old full-height IBM hard Drives using an
ESDI interface.  I have been able to get the floppy controller of the 
ESDI interface to work, but not the hard drive controller.  I need
to know what BIOS setting I would use for the hard drives (I think they are 
an E70 or something like that), whether I can run two drive controllers at the
same time, whether the Extended ESDI interface will even work, and if it is 
possible to have more than two hard drives configured when my BIOS (DTK BIOS)
setup program only seems to allow two.  I know these drives are slow, but they
are also very large and free.  Alternately, is it possible to set up an ESDI
drive to run of of an IDE interface.

I would prefer responses by e-mail to rhofmann@darwin.cc.nd.edu
and thanks for any help.

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Subject: IDE & ESDI Coexistence
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