18 Mar
2009
18 Mar
'09
4:40 p.m.
On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, silvercreekvalley wrote:
Does anyone have a spare 8 bit ISA hard-disk
controller,
something that would work in a IBM XT.
The current controller is damaged, and always reports
'1701' when the XT boots. I've tried known good hard-drives
without success so I'm pretty sure its the controller.
Please contact me of list.
IFF you want to recover the old data, and/or use the old hard drive
without a low-level reformat, then you will need to specify which hard
disk controller with more than "8 bit". Unlike AT (16 bit), the XT hard
disk conrollers were not interchangeable. Not even between related models
of Xebec.