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From: mike@LOGICON.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: XT Configuration Question
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Date: Fri, 6-Jul-84 14:25:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  6 14:25:00 1984
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A person here at Logicon has a question concerning the IBM PC/XT system
and needs some help.  And here is his question....

I am in the process of building up a PC/XT system "from scratch" - 
I have purchased an XT motherboard, chassis, and power supply as service
parts, and am accumulating the rest of the parts to make a working system.
Does anyone have firsthand information about third-party hard disk sub-
systems that can work with the XT motherboard?  The XT motherboard evidently
(it's still on order) does NOT have an empty ROM socket into which an 
additional ROM containing hard disk BIOS stuff can be plugged.  Most third-
party hard disk controllers (I am told) use a ROM that plugs into just such
an empty socket on the PC motherboard.  The IBM approach, on the other hand, 
is to physically locate the ROM on the hard disk controller board, so an empty
socket on the XT motherboard is - for them - unnecessary.  Can anyone tell me
of a third-party hard disk subsystem with the ROM on the controller card?

Please address all comments back to me and I will see that the response
is directed to the correct individual.

Thanks...

Mike Parker
{alias mike@LOGICON.ARPA}