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From: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: HELP!!!
Keywords: anybody wanna buy a used oxide planer?
Message-ID: <3712@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: 17 Feb 89 04:00:49 GMT
References: <105@toybox.UUCP> <889@infmx.UUCP>
Reply-To: brown@nicmad.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout
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In article <889@infmx.UUCP> kevinf@infmx.UUCP (Kevin Franden) writes:
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<You can't use a "generic" IBM hd with a compaq because you need compaq's 
<controller card and you can't use a compaq controller card in a non-compaq
<machine because you need compaq's BIOS (they have written their own BIOS to 
<squeeze a bit more speed out ot these frequently called routines) and naturally
<you need compaq's motherboard to use their BIOS 'cause it is dependent on
<compaq's architechure.

Sorry, not true.  Case in point, the Compaq 386/16 that I am using as the
terminal to the VAX, has a 70MB ST-506 interface drive, with an AT 16-bit
hard drive controller card.  The Compaq card is still in the PC for the
floppies, with the hard drive section turned off.  Last week I installed
a 40MB drive in another Compaq 386/16, because the Compaq 40MB drive crashed.
Again a AT 16-bit hard drive card was installed and the Compaq hard drive
section turned off.

Works great, saves alot of money.
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