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Offline SpeelgoedmannetjeTopic starter

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A590 and IDE harddisk
« on: February 21, 2012, 08:07:22 PM »
Hello all, I got a question:
Can I put an old 400 meg IDE harddisk in the A590? Currently it contains a 20mb XT disk and as the xt ide is 8 bit and the 400 meg harddisk is most probably 16 bit, I wonder if it was backwards compatible.
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Re: A590 and IDE harddisk
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2012, 08:59:00 PM »
Thanks for the clear reply :)
I suspected such as wikipedia stated xt uses the available registers for different purposes. Considering that, one could well destroy the harddisk as disk state flags won't be read properly.
But because of it having the same pinout I was in doubt.
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