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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet
- From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
- Subject: Re: XT hard disk controllers in ATs
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.195344.5072@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <1992Sep9.085823.3455@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 19:53:44 GMT
- Lines: 15
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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 (genarally
- >after a motherboard upgrade) and it seems not to work. I've heard of other
- >reports of this.
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- >Does anyone out there know why?
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- They should work, although with _lousy_ performance. You *must*, however,
- tell the BIOS that you do *NOT* have a hard disk installed. The extended
- BIOS on the XT controller card will then boot off the hard disk as usual.
-
- -JTT
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