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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: A590 questions (IDE & NULL)
Message-ID: <649@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 90 16:11:40 GMT
References: <2647@maestro.htsa.aha.nl>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <2647@maestro.htsa.aha.nl> beo@maestro.htsa.aha.nl (Jan -BeO de PeO- van Veen) writes:
>Hi, I just bought a A590, (ah only 70ms HD :^() and wondered,
>  In the HDsetup program they are talking about IDE as were it
>  an XT interface, but I was under the impression that it was
>  an AT interface. Can someone enlighten me?

There exists an 8-bit version (XT) and a 16-bit version (AT)
of IDE. The same two versions are used in the Commodore PCs
PC 20-III (XT) and PC 30/40-III (AT).

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