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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!cmcl2!panix!schuster
- From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
- Subject: Re: Original IBM PC Hard Disk Upgrade
- Message-ID: <C0r3yI.34B@panix.com>
- Keywords: IBM PC, Hard Disk Controller Compatible?
- Organization: Panix Public Access Internet & Unix, NYC
- References: <1993Jan12.143056.23050@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:15:54 GMT
- Lines: 23
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- In article <1993Jan12.143056.23050@cbfsb.cb.att.com> dlvk1@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (david.l.van kampen) writes:
- >I've got an original IBM PC that supports cassette BASIC and has one
- >5 1/4" Full Height Floppy Diskette Drive. It's over 10 years old!
- >Anyway, I want to make a terminal/simple word processor out of it and
- >I'd like to add a hard disk, either 10 or 20 Mbytes. Which hard disk
- >controllers will work? I checked the date of the ROM's and the docs
- >I have indicate these ROM's will support Hard Disk Boot-up. Will any
- >off-the-shelf MFM controller work or does it have to be IBM? WIll I
- >need a HD controller with on-board ROM? Any hints will be greatly
- >appreciated. Thanks!
-
- Any XT-class hard disk controller (which has a built-in ROM BIOS extension,
- that's why you need the proper PC BIOS) will work. I recently did this
- for a friend, over my objections, and found the easiest thing to do was
- to buy a 20 MB MFM hard card at a flea market for $100. It just drops in and
- you're off and running.
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