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From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: IDE Hard Drives
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Date: 27 Jun 91 07:53:49 GMT
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Most IDE drives for PC's are quite cheap these days. Can these drives be
connected to the ST in any way? eg. IDE->ACSI or IDE->SCSI.

What sort of interface is IDE? Is it a low or high level one?

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