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From: brim@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mike Brim - Product Assurance)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 8-bit v. 16-bit cards
Message-ID: <14531@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 19 Sep 90 12:07:02 GMT
References: <13728@hydra.gatech.EDU> <3118.26f65e1e@cc.helsinki.fi>
Reply-To: brim@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mike Brim - Product Assurance)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <3118.26f65e1e@cc.helsinki.fi> jlaiho@cc.helsinki.fi writes:
> In article <13728@hydra.gatech.EDU>, gt4824a@prism.gatech.EDU (gt4824a BEKER,PAUL) writes:
> > Can I plug an 8-bit card (i.e. a RLL controller, or a VGA card) into
> > a physical 16-bit bus like those found on 2/386 machines?  Will the
> > performance of either the card or the m'board suffer?
> > 
> > Thanks!  Paul Beker  ..  gt4824a@prism.gatech.edu
> 
> NEVER even try to put an 8-bit hard-disk controller to a machine w
> 16-bit bus. I don't know whether or not it actually destroys something,
> but definitely it won't work.
> 

Why not!?  I've seen it done many times. In fact many of the early AT clones
used 8-bit HD controller cards in their systems.  You will of course only
get 8-bit performance.

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