4 Apr
2005
4 Apr
'05
5:58 p.m.
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:
I was confused by the statement too. Are you saying
that the same
*model* of controller won't necessarily work (due to different
tolerances in components say) - or just that different controllers that
happen to use a few common chips won't work?
From my recollections of working on XT systems in the last 80s, when
swapping MFM controllers, you had to make sure they used the same chipset.
For instance, a drive formatted by a WD controller would probably NOT be
readable by a DTC controller.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
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