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From: jlaiho@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 8-bit v. 16-bit cards
Message-ID: <3139.26faa711@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 21 Sep 90 23:49:36 GMT
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In article <90262.150845RREED@ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu>, RREED%ucf1vm.cc.ucf.edu@ncsuvm.ncsu.edu writes:
> In article <3118.26f65e1e@cc.helsinki.fi>, jlaiho@cc.helsinki.fi says:
>>
>>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.
>>
> Never say never!  Especially with computers.  You can use an 8-bit hard
  <<actual trick deleted>>

So, I blew that one, as a few others stated to me via mail. Thank you
all for correcting, and thank YOU for telling me the trick.

Juha Laiho  jlaiho@cc.Helsinki.FI