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- From: trulsson@Male.docs.uu.se (Erik Trulsson)
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- Subject: Re: Can I use a PC hard disk on my amiga.
- Date: 19 Apr 1996 15:34:41 GMT
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- Eddie <tl14@bton.ac.uk> wrote:
- > 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.
-
- The A500 didn't have any HD controller by default so you can't really say that it
- "uses SCSI". There exists HD controllers for the A500 that accept IDE drives
- (as well as SCSI controllers) so the answer to the original posters question
- is : Yes, if you get a HDcontroller that supports IDE-drives.
- As for the memory , the same goes: If you can find a memory expansion that
- accepts the SIMMS found in your PC it should work fine. Note that some HD-
- controllers also allow you to add some extra memory.
-