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From: cd5340@mars.njit.edu (Charlap David)
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Subject: Re: Upgrading from 286 to 386SX
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Date: 8 Jan 91 21:00:06 GMT
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In article <5180@bwdls58.UUCP> mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) writes:
>However, your disk drive controller may give you other problems.. bios related.
>8-bit controllers DO work in AT/386 systems, but are tricky to configure..
>and may cause problems when running in protected mode or v86 mode, due to the
>lack of full addressing capability outside of the lower 1MB.

Yes, but some 8-bit cards are made for AT's, like my SCSI host adapter that
was shipped with my Seagate ST-296N hard drive.

--- Dave