On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Dan Olson wrote:
> > 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.
I bet it definitely works (boot on XT drive) if one disables the onboard
IDE first.
The problem I see is using IDE and MFM/RLL drives at the same time,
which might prove difficult.
Jakob
