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- From: tl14@bton.ac.uk (Eddie)
- Subject: Re: Can I use a PC hard disk on my amiga.
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- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 14:47:45 GMT
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- M.Warren. (mdw95@mailbox.cc.rl.ac.uk) wrote:
- : I have been lucky(??) enuff to obtain thru my work an oldish PC 486DX..
- : The main thing tho..is that it has a 1.2 Gigabyte hard disk in it!!.
- : Now..is there a way I can plug my amiga into the pc and use the HD
- : on the amiga?..or do I have to remove the PC hard disk..and will it
- : be compatible?..I have no idea how to go about this..and ideally I
- : would like to keep the PC HD intact.. So..can I somehow access the
- : PC hard disk from my amiga?..any ideas on this would be most appriciated.
- : Thanks In advance.
- : Mike Warren.
- : p.s. I have an old A500 WB 1.3 1 MB of memory..(hey..is there a way
- : I can get the amiga to access my 15MB of PC memory???) and NO hard disk.
- : (1 int and 1 ext floppy).
-
- THR 486 PC'S use IDE drives. A500 uses SCSI. So no - I don't think so. To
- use the memory you could by a bare expansion board that takes SIMM chips and
- then plug the SIMMS into that.
-
- You could network the PC to the Amiga and use the PC as a slave device and use
- the Harddrive that way. It would be a tad slow though!
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- * Tim Lewis (a.k.a Eddie) * "You think I'm crazy! *
- * * You wouldn't know what crazy was *
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