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- From: davem@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave McCrady)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: XT hard disk controllers in ATs
- Message-ID: <N5PuqB1w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 20:44:22 GMT
- References: <1992Sep9.085823.3455@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
- Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #7, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- u5533129@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au writes:
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- - We've tried putting XT contollers and hard disks on AT motherboards (genarall
- - 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
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- It does work. Just tell the AT's CMOS there are NO hard drives installed
- in the system. The controller's BIOS will take it from there,
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- Dave McCrady davem@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
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