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From: cjeffery@arizona.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Hard Disks: XT vs. AT
Keywords: hard disk xt at
Message-ID: <6201@megaron.arizona.edu>
Date: 12 Jul 88 21:07:09 GMT
Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson
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Hi people: for a year now I have been running an Atasi 3046 drive in my
XT clone.  Recently I purchased an AT clone kit, planning on using the
Atasi as its hard drive.  So far, the hard disk "fails initialization"
and has resisted any attempts at low-level formatting in the AT.

So my question: what differences are there between the XT (e.g. WD WX1)
controller and the AT (e.g. WD WA2) controller?  Don't most ST 506 drives
work with either?  Are there any little jumpers I need to pull?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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