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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: 8-bit v. 16-bit cards
Message-ID: <1949@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 22 Sep 90 21:43:42 GMT
References: <13728@hydra.gatech.EDU> <3118.26f65e1e@cc.helsinki.fi>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <3118.26f65e1e@cc.helsinki.fi> jlaiho@cc.helsinki.fi writes:

| 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.

  The first part of a 16bit AT bus is the old XT bus. I have run a
number of AT's with XT disk controllers. Whatever gave you the idea that
there was a problem. And I run several systems with 8 bit serial boards
in 16 bit slots.

  I'm told that it works even on the EISA bus, because one of the guys
at work has an 8 bit ethernet board in his 486EISA until the new card
comes in.
-- 
bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me