re esdi with ide yes it should be possible in article apr monu cc monash edu au els r fawlty eng monash edu au g chow writes in article qegfd dqi wsinis info win tue nl monty wsinis info win tue nl guido leenders writes hi is it possible to use an esdi controller with hdd together with an ide harddisk controller in one isa system i ve read stuff about secondary controllers does this trick work thanx in advance guido monty win tue nl i have the same question as guido it is possible to use the esdi drive as a master and the ide drive as the slave i can definitily say that you can use an rll as master and ide as slave as i have just upgraded my machine with a mb ide and custom controller mdl ci extended ide controller while maintaining my rll d wren as master drive the trick is the controller which supports up to ide drives while coexisting with existing controllers mfm rll esdi scsi so according to the documentation it should work with esdi and i can assure you it works with rll bruce powell email bss brucep vd seqeb gov au
