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First post, by Stojke

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I have an Western Digital FileCard 30 with, what i suspect is an dead, hard drive.
Whats the issue is that the hard drive is missing an reader head rotor dust protection cap. http://i.imgur.com/jMU7dfG.jpg | http://i.imgur.com/kWxa1jJ.jpg

The controller on the FileCard is an WDXT-150 , which I cant confirm can it run AT drives.

I was thinking of swapping the IDE board from the XT hard drive to an AT hard drive because they seem identical.
XT > http://i.imgur.com/bWcvgob.jpg
AT > http://i.imgur.com/pv6ocx8.jpg

The only problem is that the XT one is 38MB, but the AT one is 44MB.

Any one have any experience on this?

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Reply 1 of 3, by Robin4

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I have one of those WDXT-150 here.. No normal AT drives doesnt seems to work with that controller.. It only can speak XT language.

~ At least it can do black and white~

Reply 2 of 3, by konc

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I don't think there is any chance of an IDE disk designed to use 16-bit data path to work with a board from a different model which uses 8-bit.
But your idea is rather interesting, this controller can't talk to AT IDE anyway (16-bit data path) so this looks like the only way to go. I'm curious to read how it went.

Reply 3 of 3, by Stojke

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They are pretty much exactly the same, the mechanical construction on the AT has all the parts exactly the same as the XT model.
The only difference is found on the IDE board.
I am guessing that all i need to do is program the XT controller for 44MB disk instead of 38MB disk.

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