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Re: XT Hard Drive and Controller in 386

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From: Bob Lipset
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1993 18:24
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leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:

>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.


I don't know about that.  I've never been able to get an 8 bit disk
controller card to work on an AT bus.


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***  Bob Lipset                                   |                      ***
***  School of Engineering and Computer Science   |                      ***
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