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In article <332@mit-amt.MIT.EDU> mob@mit-amt.MIT.EDU (Mario O. Bourgoin) writes:
>I need to control two 10 Megabyte hard disks from one XT. The XT
>already controls one 10M hard disk using the original IBM controller.
>I want to add one from an XT that is unused. I have looked at the XT
>reference manual and the hardware and I can't see a way of controlling
>an extra disk using it.

Look again.  The standard IBM controller handles two 10 MB disks.  They
even provide the cabling; all you have to do is take the second drive and
plug it in.  There isn't physically room in an XT for two hard drives and
a floppy, though, so you need an expansion chassis, which is expensive, or
else some half-height drives.

I have personally plugged two drives into the controller many times (in an
expansion box, because we had them) and it works just fine.

John Levine, ima!johnl
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