From: paladin@world.std.com (Thomas G Schlatter)
Subject: Re: SCSI/DOS/adding a 3rd drive..?!@#$
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
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In article <1993Apr23.070230.9189@physchem.ox.ac.uk> mark@physchem.ox.ac.uk (Mark Jackson) writes:
>
>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....
>
>
>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.
>

ODD, FDISK works fine for me with 2 IDE drives and a SCSI drive on
my Ultrastor 14F - only with the device driver loaded, though.


