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From: heasley@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Jim Heasley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Need Info On Hard Disk Controllers for AT
Message-ID: <4136@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 89 01:54:12 GMT
Organization: University of Hawaii
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I would like to get some *hard* information on disk controllers than can
be configured to runs as the SECOND such device in an AT.  My AT/clone
came with a WD RLL controller running a Seagate ST-277R.  I have a spare
ST-251 which I would like to add to this machine.  I've read all the
flames on the various newsgroups that the ST-277 is just a ST-251 which
has been rated to run with an RLL controller and go ahead and do it you
have nothing to lose, etc.  Well, I tried, and my software wouldn't even
acknowledge the presence of the drive when I hooked it up (either
SpeedStor or Disk Manager)! The ST-251 checks out OK when I run it with
a genuine MFM controller, so I'm back to trying to find some company
that makes an MFM controller that can be configured to be a second hard
disk controller on the bus. 

If anyone has hard information, i.e., the name and model of such a
device, (the phone number for the company if possible), and hopefully
information of software which would run it(!) please e-mail to me
directly.  If I get any answers I'll post a summary to the newsgroup. 

Jim Heasley
Institute for Astronomy
University of Hawaii

Internet:	heasley@uhifa.ifa.hawaii.edu
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