Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.hardware
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bwdls61!bwdla28!coop4y44
From: coop4y44@bwdla28.bnr.ca (Takis Skagos)
Subject: Re: How does one install an IDE drive?
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.131203.575@bwdls61.bnr.ca>
Summary: Installing an IDE drive.
	 How I did mine ...
Keywords: IDE,disk,interface
Sender: usenet@bwdls61.bnr.ca (Use Net)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
References: <23518@well.sf.ca.us> <1991Mar11.204553.6597@DRD.Com>
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1991 13:12:03 GMT

In article <1991Mar11.204553.6597@DRD.Com>, john@DRD.Com (John Horeth) writes:
> I have been offered a pretty good price on a IDE drive and want to know how
> it connects to the computer.  The saleman told me that it simply connected
> to the motherboard???
> 
> I currently have a DTK motherboard (386) with an MFM type disc controller.
> The motherboard was made about 1989 if this make any difference.
> 

   I have a 16 bit controller for my 3.5" and 5.25" drives and my
IDE drive plugs right into that.  Just installing the drive is really
all you need to do.  You don't need to do a low-level format (all IDE
drives are done so at the factory).  Once you have have the drive
installled, choose a drive description that is roughly the same size
as your IDE drive (or the IDE manufacturer may have provided a list of
drives that your drive looks like).  Regardless, IDE drives are smart
and it takes virtually no skill to install them.                 


						Taki