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From: bollard@hpspkla.spk.hp.com (Lee M. Bollard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: IDE/dmdrvr.bin/bios
Message-ID: <6470006@hpspkla.spk.hp.com>
Date: 28 Sep 90 20:07:09 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard Company, Spokane, Wa.
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I'm considering purchase of an IDE drive.  Toshiba and Connor being checked
out.  Any reason not to buy either of these?  

Can someone clarify:  If my bios supports IDE, then I won't have to use
DMDRVR.BIN to make things work, and necessitate putting the line in 
WIN.INI that slows things down (VirtualHDIrq=off)  Is this true.  I don't
want things to slow down in Windows!

I will upgrade my bios if necessary.  Can I swap my Phoenix for an AMI
bios?  Are these things interchangeble?

Oh, maybe I should clarify a bit.... I'm looking at about a 100meg drive,
I have a Gateway 386/20 >1yr old.

Thanks for the advice!


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