> > I've got a 808[68] maschine with a 40 MB harddisk with MS-DOS 3.3
> > installed.
> > I want to use this maschine with ELKS in future so I decided to make a
> > backup of the disk first. Can I just move the whole disk with it's
> > adapter card to my Pentium? I noticed that there is a xt disk driver
> > for linux.
>
>I suspect that this will probably not work...but you may be lucky. XT's
>use jumpers or software on the card for determining hard drive parameters,
>where all AT class machines have this in some sort of BIOS setup. If you
>have a card which can be jumpered (I've got a couple like that) between XT
>or AT you'll be alright. Also, if your Pentium has an IDE controller on
>board, make sure you shut it off or it may conflict (though didn't xt and
>at controllers use different interupts or something??). I'd say your best
>bet is a 16 bit AT MFM controller card, that should work in your Pentuim
>for sure.
>
It will prob work as long as it is an "AT" class MFM controler. I could
never get my XT MFM controler to work in my AT machine(386)
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