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Article #8488Re: How does one install an IDE drive?
From: Mike Brim - Product Assurance
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1991 13:16
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1991 13:16
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In article <21229@shlump.nac.dec.com> gettys@yacht.enet.dec.com (Bob Gettys) writes: > > You will need to get an IDE drive card. Your BIOS should be new enough > (especially since the IDE interface is "supposed to" look like the ST506 > "mostly". (There can be some "gotchya's here - but not usually)... The date of the BIOS is actually not as important as having the correct drive type. Many of the smaller IDE drives (40megs) use drive type 17 which is standard in most BIOS including the IBM AT (the later ones). -- ******************************************************************************** Disclaimer: I don't speak for my company or myself. Mike Brim | Commodore Electronics Limited PC Analyst - System Evaluation Group | West Chester, PA 19380 Product Assurance | InterNet: brim@cbmvax.commodore.com ********************************************************************************
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!ukma!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!brim From: brim@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mike Brim - Product Assurance) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: How does one install an IDE drive? Message-ID: <19990@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 20 Mar 91 13:16:30 GMT Article-I.D.: cbmvax.19990 References: <1991Mar11.204553.6597@DRD.Com> <80330016@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com> <1991Mar19.032138.1996@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <21229@shlump.nac.dec.com> Reply-To: brim@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mike Brim - Product Assurance) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 17