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From: knotts@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Tom Knotts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: How does one install an IDE drive?
Message-ID: <80330016@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 18:56:23 GMT
References: <1991Mar11.204553.6597@DRD.Com>
Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
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>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???

Don't do a low-level format! IDE drives come already formatted.

tom