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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet
- From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
- Subject: Re: Reformat HD when XT->AT?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.203221.27660@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <d8olsth.715815727@dtek.chalmers.se>
- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 20:32:21 GMT
- Lines: 14
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- d8olsth@dtek.chalmers.se (Thomas Olsson) writes:
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- >Do you have to make a low level format when you move a HD from a XT to an AT?
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- If you change disk controllers, definitely. If you don't, you should. The
- XT uses 8 bit controllers with HD boot in ROM. It is _possible_ to use these
- in an AT (CMOS setup = NO hard disk), but performance will really byte.
- Furthermore, XT controllers typically have an interleave _no_better_than_
- three (3); most AT controllers are 1:1 (a few old ones are still 2:1).
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- So, DO_IT!
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- -JTT
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