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From: ianj@ijpc.UUCP (Ian Justman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: Reply to Big Board II
Message-ID: <gawRT2w163w@ijpc.UUCP>
Date: 6 Dec 90 19:35:51 GMT
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Organization: Ian Justman's IBM-PC
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fzsitvay@techbook.com (Frank Zsitvay) writes:

>   well, what i meant was could i connect my 8 inch drives to an existing
> AT HD controller and get the thing to work with uniform??  the reason
> why is because compaticards aren't exactly cheap, and i'd like to
> avoid that step if possible.  i can make a proper cable, but i need to
> know if uniform understands such a setup.

I've been wondering that myself, but I have an XT and I have an
SA851 busy doing nothing at the moment...  However, if that
bit fails, you might try 22DISK.  It has some text in there about
using 8" drives, and you can specify whether or not you're using
a CompatiCard to drive it.