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From: eichi@forty2.UUCP (Stefan Eichenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: AT&T PC6300-compatible hard disk
Message-ID: <1224@forty2.UUCP>
Date: 23 Feb 90 14:22:14 GMT
References: <2587@intvax.UUCP> <1075@nems.dt.navy.mil>
Reply-To: eichi@forty2.UUCP (Stefan Eichenberger)
Organization: Exp. Physics University Zuerich
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In article <2587@intvax.UUCP> novak@intvax.UUCP (James L. Novak) writes:
>A good friend has an early AT&T PC6300 (XT-clone) and wants to finally
>join the real world and add a hard drive.  The problem is that everyone
>he calls (mail order places) won't guarantee that an add-on drive/adapter
>will work.  I know I used such a machine with a hard drive in school, but
>don't remember anything about incompatibility problems.  Can anyone
>enlighten me about problems and controllers/disks that will work.  Give it
>to me techincal-I can translate for my MBA friend.

I've a HardCard Plus / 40 MByte running in my AT&T 6300 together with a
Datacard 21, which I have to use as a primary Hard Disk, since only the
HArdCard allows to select different ROM addresses. The whole 60 MBytes
run just fine, I notice a speed difference between the 80ms DataCard
access time and the 40 ms Hard Card access time - so I'm not yet limited
by the bus bandwidth as I'd probably be in a XT environment. The Cards
have the advantage that I've still my two floppies available since the disk
sits right on the controller card. Installation is no problem altough you've to
inform the BIOS about its luck to have a HD awailable now by setting some
disk switches.




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