21 Dec
2005
21 Dec
'05
8:03 p.m.
On 12/21/2005 at 7:43 PM Fred Cisin wrote:
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Tom Peters wrote:
It's 8 bit IDE.
At the time, they were neither rare, nor very expensive.
If you waited until now to buy one, then you may be outa luck.
Sometimes called XTA; these drives could do 8 bit data transfers--i.e.,
they actually paid attention to IOCS16\.
Cheers,
Chuck
8438XT,
31 Megs formatted, 4 heads, 615 Cyl, 26 sectors, 68
MSecond timing XT-IDE
XT-IDE? What's that? I didn't know that there was
an XT compatible IDE
controller, except a few rare and expensive ones.