> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 01:00:31 +0300
> From: hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: May I pick your brains?
> You can *not* use an XT(HD) drive without its controller (card);
True.
> and you cannot use 2 controllers (cards that is) at the same time
> in a '286(+) in the ISA slots of that AT at the same time.
Sure you can - but you may need a software "secondary HDC" driver
to do so with most old 286 BIOSes. One I have used was called
"3DRIVES", though it actually would do four. It permitted mixing
of MFM, RLL, IDE, or SCSI controller cards, as well.
> You can move the XT's HD to a '486 with the appropriate controller:
> i.e. if it's a MFM or RLL controller. (But then you cannot use the
> more 'advanced', but less performing, IDE controller on that '486)
Sure you can - as a secondary controller ( or vice versa ).
> It *does* make sense to keep a '286 intact (and even upgade it to some
> degree: different floppies to access archives, serial/parallel ports
> for linking to other machines).
They make dandy printer servers and remote file servers. ( The HDs are
a little slow, but so is any network transfer. ) Besides...slap a cheap
grayscale VGA on it, install an EMS board with as much memory as you can
cram into it, plug in a modem, load Arachne and SURF !
- John T.
-- Arachne V1.5a;alpha, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://home.arachne.cz/
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