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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: PC/XT Additional Hard Disks
Message-ID: <471@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Dec-85 22:40:50 EST
Article-I.D.: nicmad.471
Posted: Sun Dec 15 22:40:50 1985
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References: <371@mmm.UUCP>
Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Mr. Video)
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Organization: Nicolet Instrument Corp. Madison WI
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In article <371@mmm.UUCP> igielski@mmm.UUCP (Tom Igielski) writes:
>With a standard XT configuartion, how do most people add the additional
>hard disks?  The XEBEC controller is set up to handle two drives, but
>there is physically no room in an XT to add the additional drive.
>
>Do most people buy an external drive, and add another controller?  Another
>option would seem to be to junk the standard floppy, buy a half hight
>floppy and hard disk and put them inside.  If you do this, will the
>half hight winchester be able to use the XEBEC controller?  Can the 
>half hight floppy use the existing floppy controller?

The IBM floppy disk controller WILL run half-height floppies.  We use
the TEAC 55 series drive.  Unfortunately I don't know the XEBEC hard disk
controller.  If it is the normal controller board that IBM installs,
we don't use it.  We buy our XTs w/o any floppies for hard disks, only
the floppy disk controller and monitor board.  We install hard disks that
we purchase from third party vendor.  They include a matching controller.
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