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From: wbonner@eecs.wsu.edu (Wim Bonner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: RLL vs IDE
Message-ID: <1990Oct25.074454.2373@eecs.wsu.edu>
Date: 25 Oct 90 07:44:54 GMT
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Reply-To: wbonner@yoda.UUCP (Wim Bonner)
Organization: Washington State University, Pullman
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I've gotten confused by this whole IDE thing.  

Can I connect most IDE drives to a standard AT hard drive controller? (Western
Digital standard I suppose?)

Do I need to get a new controller?  

I have an AT with very few extra slots (read all full at present, but I COULD 
pull a card if need be.) and a st251-1? (40 meg seagate drive) connected to the
standard controller.  

Would I be able to connect an IDE drive if I bought a new one to the current 
controller?  Is there an easy solution to adding another drive, other than
adding another similar drive?

Wim.

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