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to: ARTHUR MARSH
from: FRANK RAMSEY
date: 1997-06-19 22:21:00
subject: Re: adding 2nd SCSI HBA to 3.12

 AM> Hi, are there any general things to watch out for when 
 AM> adding a second SCSI HBA to a NW 3.12 server?
 AM> I'd imagine that one ensures that they use unique IRQ's, 
 AM> I/O addresses and the like, and that at most one of them 
 AM> has floppy drives enabled. Also, one ensures that a second 
 AM> load line should be placed in Autoexec.ncf.
 AM> I'd also imagine that only one HBA should have its BIOS 
 AM> enabled, and the HBA with BIOS enabled will attempt to find a boot disk.
 AM> The HBA's are an existing Buslogic VESA local bus, and a 
 AM> new Buslogic ISA card from the same series and sharing the 
 AM> same .DSK driver. 
 AM> Anything else? I'll be Reading the Fine Manuals closely 
 AM> and planning things out over the next week or so first...
Not really.  You've got most of it, keep things separate. It's not much of a 
problem.  Even loading the .DSK file twice isn't a problem.  
You don't have to have the BIOS disabled on the 2nd one.  If you happen to 
have disk ID 0 on both HDA's which one it boots from becomes somewhat 
interesting.  Easy thing to do is not have a ID 0 on the second one.  Netware 
partitions only.
framsey@goodyear.com; frank.ramsey@fallsbbs.com - CNE, CNA-4, PE
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