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- From: u009@csx.cciw.ca (G. Stewart Beal)
- Subject: Re: XT hard disk controllers in ATs
- Organization: Canada Centre for Inland Waters
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 01:55:19 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.015519.9809@csx.cciw.ca>
- References: <1992Sep9.085823.3455@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
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- In article <1992Sep9.085823.3455@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au> u5533129@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au writes:
- >
- >We've tried putting XT contollers and hard disks on AT motherboards (genarally
- >after a motherboard upgrade) and it seems not to work. I've heard of other
- >reports of this.
- >
- >Does anyone out there know why?
- >
- >Peter Summers
- I have generally had no problem using adaptec controllers and their
- associated drives into ATs. In the setup for CMOS specify no hard disk
- and let the BIOS rom on the controller look after the drive.
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- Regards, Stu Beal, VE3MWM, u009@cs.cciw.ca,
- National Water Research Institute.
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- We had survived another nuclear winter, and the
- lawn had just trapped and eaten it's first robin.
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