ewa@ketu.silvlis.com (Ernest Adams) (02/22/89)
I wrote in a little while ago asking about information on Intel's Inboard 386
for the PC. When I found out that they wouldn't guarantee it to work with
anything but True Blues and Compaqs, I lost interest. Also, it costs
lotsobux.
Now I'm considering buying a high-speed AT motherboard instead. The question
here is: which of my equipment is going to stop working if I do this? I have:
VEGA VGA card
1 floppy controller for 2 360K floppy drives
1 Western Digital RLL controller for a Seagate 238 hard disk drive
1 parallel, 2 serial, 1 joystick port
150 Watt power supply
Sony Multiscan monitor
I have heard that the hard disk won't make the transfer. Is this true?
What about the floppies and other things? Since the hard disk represented
a considerable investment, I'm loath to give it up.
Any suggestions?
--
Ernest W. Adams
silvlis!ewa
I don't speak for Silvar-Lisco, and they don't speak for me. We're even.lairdt@bigtime.fidonet.org (Brian Schorn) (02/23/89)
All of the stuff you currently have in you XT system will work with a
286 motherboard. However, you are not going to get amny of the pluses
available with the 286 board, such a the throughput. I just finished
upgradeing from a 10mhz XT to a 12mhz 286, and everything worked,
however I got a new floppy/hard controller card to give me the through
put in I/O, and I had to get an I/O card (since before I had a floppy
I/O card on my XT).
If the 286 bios will allow it, you might not have to get anything. Or
you might want to (for more throughput). A floppy/RLL hard disk
controller card will set you back upwards of $250 or so...
--
Tom Laird
Domain: lairdt@bigtime.fidonet.org
UUCP: ...!{tektronix, hplabs!hp-pcd}!orstcs!bigtime!lairdt
via Big Time Television (bigtime.fidonet.org, 1:152/201)boyne@hplvli.HP.COM (Art Boyne) (02/23/89)
The *drives* will be OK, just the *controller* will have to be replaced. XT machines have BIOS routines on the controller, AT's have it all in the main BIOS. Also, XT controllers are 8-bit, AT controllers are 16-bit, giving a performance boost. Art Boyne, boyne@hplvla.hp.com
velte@mimsy.UUCP (Jack Velte) (02/26/89)
if you install an 8 bit controller in an AT machine, you should select 0 hard drives in the AT setup and have the hard drive listen to the bios on the 8 bit controller. -- Jack Velte @ University of MD domain: velte@mimsy.umd.edu path: seismo!mimsy!velte