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- From: lestrade@Ra.MsState.Edu (John Patrick Lestrade)
- Subject: Re: MFM to IDE
- Message-ID: <lestrade.716480724@Ra.MsState.Edu>
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- Organization: Mississippi State University
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 14:25:24 GMT
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- paulo@bass.bu.edu (Paulo Lam) writes:
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-
- >hi, guys
-
- >I have an old MFM hard driver in my 386DX
- >now I want a bigger hard driver and I went
- >out and bought a 213M IDE drive, and before
- >I go out and buy an IDE controller, I want
- >to know if I have to change the floppy drivers
- >and can I used the old MFM drive as a slave to
- >the bigger IDE drive.
- >also, any recommendation on what type of IDE
- >controller would be helpful.
-
- I just bought the maxtor 213. I have heard (take that with a grain of
- salt) that you cannot have an mfm drive cohabitating with an ide.
- I bought an $18 paddle board as a "controller" for the maxtor. since my
- bios did not have drive type 47 (user definable) I got a friend with
- an eprom burner to edit my drive table. works great!
-
- --
- John Patrick Lestrade, PhD
- cnesta::lestrade
- lestrade@ra.msstate.edu
-