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From: rafiq@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Salik "slick" Rafiq)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: How does an IDE drive work ?
Message-ID: <1991Feb26.010020.5049@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 26 Feb 91 01:00:20 GMT
References: <5222@male.EBay.Sun.COM>
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Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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In article <5222@male.EBay.Sun.COM> rc@garbo.EBay.Sun.COM (Ran-Chi Huang) writes:
>Hi NetLanders,
>
>    I'm fascinated with the so-called IDE drives. I understand that the
>only thing a user has to do is to select a drive type closest to the
>capacity of the actual device during the CMOS setup, and the IDE drive will
>happily emulate that particular drive type. How is that done ?
>
[Bunch of questions deleted]
>	   
>Thanks for all the information you can provide.

Most of your questions are answered in the March '91 BYTE (which
just arrived in my mailbox today).


Salik.

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