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From: barton@holston.UUCP (Barton A. Fisk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Adding 2nd Hard Drive Woes
Summary: get ahold of a PD program called drivtypes.
Keywords: CDC 40meg Drive
Message-ID: <5669@holston.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 90 17:34:27 GMT
References: <524@fedeva.UUCP>
Organization: Barton A. Fisk & Co.
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In article <524@fedeva.UUCP>, mitch@fedeva.UUCP (Mitch Wood) writes:
> is ... What is the drive TYPE for an AT class machine... and .. Should
> I have any problems adding this as a 2nd hard drive unit along with my
> Seagate 20meg as my boot drive? (C:)
> 

The drivetypes themselves are bios dependent. My best bet was a
pd prog called drivtypes. It reads your bios and reports all drives
supported and gives their params (nice).

Although some bios vendors have tried to keep the original IBM AT
supported types (1-23), there are so many hard drives on the market
now this is really a moot point.

Of course you still need to know some specs on your drive before
picking the right type. A third party hd prog might help there, such
as disk manager, or speedstore. I think (not sure here) that both
will report what they think your drive looks like. If you choose t
let one of these low-level the disk for you it might make things
easier.  hope this helps some.
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