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From: alt@cbnewsd.att.com (art.l.todesco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: IDE drive for XT?
Keywords: IDE XT
Message-ID: <1991May26.041650.4041@cbnewsd.att.com>
Date: 26 May 91 04:16:50 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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I have an AT&T 6300 and was wondering if you could use an IDE hard drive.  Two
problems comes to mind: the 6300 has a floppy controller on the motherboard
that others have had trouble disabling and is the IDE 16 bits only, or does it
switch to 8 for XTs.
Thanks,
Art Todesco
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