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Re: XT Hard Drive and Controller in 386

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From: Leonard Erickson
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1993 04:40
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lynam@maize.qut.edu.au (Barry Lynam) writes:

>Does anyone know how to get an old XT harddrive and controller working
>in a 386 and use the existing IDE drive/controller as well?

Just plug it in. *Don't* Tell your CMOS setup about the drive, the
controller will run it independent of that.
-- 
Leonard Erickson	           leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
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From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,aus.computers.ibm-pc
Subject: Re: XT Hard Drive and Controller in 386
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Date: 11 Dec 93 04:40:18 GMT
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