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From: toma@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Problems with V20's and WD controllers?
Keywords: NEC V20 CPU, Western Digital WD1002S-WX2
Message-ID: <4108@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
Date: 20 Oct 88 17:53:17 GMT
References: <3033@dalcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <3033@dalcs.UUCP> lane@dalcs.UUCP (John Wright/Dr. Pat Lane) writes:
>I called Western Digital the other day about a weird problem I have with
>hard disk operation on an XT clone with a WD controller ...

>When I mentioned that the machine had a NEC V20, the guy said "That's your
>problem right there" ...

AHA!  I have an old Tandy 1000 which I put a V20 in.  When I added a
hard disk (with WD controller), the system would not boot from the hard disk
-- it would boot from the floppy and then I could normally access the
hard disk.  Anyway, I put the 8088 back in.

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.TEK.COM
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