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Article #12265Re: How to upgrade an AMSTRAD 1386 HD??
From: John Beardmore
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 1995 00:00
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In article <816277351.3997@ubiquity.demon.co.uk> miked "Michael Doyle" writes: >Dr Susan Beardmore <wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> >>>Has anyone done this? I had heard that some IDE drives have a built-in BIOS >>>and the card and drive form one unit suitable for any PC. Is there any number>>>I could call, or address or FAQ I could read? I scoured the Web and FAQs but >>>they only refer to the games machines. >> >>No, it's more that some machines have a BIOS which enables them to sense >>the type of IDE drive connected. >> >>Not that even these machines can use andy IDE drive, but they might manage >>to talk to most of them under 512 meg. >> >>Does this Amstrad machine even use IDE drives ? >> >>-- >>John Beardmore >Thanks John. > >Unfortunately, this machine does not use IDE. Shame - though vendors that I >call say its real easy to add disks in my situation. Maybe its simpler to dump >the thing and move on. Seems a shame if it still works. What drives does it use then ? -- John Beardmore
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f53ba,d474877562c5a505 X-Google-Attributes: gidf53ba,public X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,d474877562c5a505 X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public From: John Beardmore <wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: How to upgrade an AMSTRAD 1386 HD?? Date: 1995/11/14 Message-ID: <816392107snz@wookie.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 119364718 x-nntp-posting-host: wookie.demon.co.uk references: <815999119.26014@ubiquity.demon.co.uk> <816086670snz@wookie.demon.co.uk> <816277351.3997@ubiquity.demon.co.uk> organization: Myorganisation reply-to: wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,demon.tech.pc