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- From: rhofmann@dopey.helios.nd.edu (robert hofmann)
- Subject: IDE & ESDI Coexistence
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.214030.27731@news.nd.edu>
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- Reply-To: rhofmann@dopey.helios.nd.edu (robert hofmann)
- Organization: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 21:40:30 GMT
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- I currently have a DTK 386/25 computer with 44 meg Seagate IDE drive
- , a 3.5 inch high cdensity flopy drive, and a 5.25 inch high density
- floppy drive. My roommate is a comp. sci. major and got an old IBM
- RT from the school for free and we want to try to use some of the
- equipment from the RT in our AT clones. My problem is this:
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- The RT has about 700 megs of old full-height IBM hard Drives using an
- ESDI interface. I have been able to get the floppy controller of the
- ESDI interface to work, but not the hard drive controller. I need
- to know what BIOS setting I would use for the hard drives (I think they are
- an E70 or something like that), whether I can run two drive controllers at the
- same time, whether the Extended ESDI interface will even work, and if it is
- possible to have more than two hard drives configured when my BIOS (DTK BIOS)
- setup program only seems to allow two. I know these drives are slow, but they
- are also very large and free. Alternately, is it possible to set up an ESDI
- drive to run of of an IDE interface.
-
- I would prefer responses by e-mail to rhofmann@darwin.cc.nd.edu
- and thanks for any help.
-
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- The preceding has been brought to you by:
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- BOB, a proud supporter of the 1992 Fighting Irish.
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- _______________________________________________________________________
- | Robert G. Hofmann III: rhofmann@darwin.cc.nd.edu |
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- |"The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories |
- | that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long |
- | forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one |
- | Age, called the Third Age by some, an Age yet to come, an Age |
- | long past, a wind arose on the great plain called the Caralain |
- | Grass. The wind was not the beginning. There are neither begin- |
- | ings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was |
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