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From: brim@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mike Brim - Product Assurance)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: How does one install an IDE drive?
Message-ID: <19990@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 20 Mar 91 13:16:30 GMT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.19990
References: <1991Mar11.204553.6597@DRD.Com> <80330016@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com> <1991Mar19.032138.1996@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <21229@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Reply-To: brim@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mike Brim - Product Assurance)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <21229@shlump.nac.dec.com> gettys@yacht.enet.dec.com (Bob Gettys) writes:
> 
> 	You will need to get an IDE drive card. Your BIOS should be new enough
> (especially since the IDE interface is "supposed to" look like the ST506
> "mostly". (There can be some "gotchya's here - but not usually)...

The date of the BIOS is actually not as important as having the correct drive
type.  Many of the smaller IDE drives (40megs) use drive type 17 which is 
standard in most BIOS including the IBM AT (the later ones).  
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