Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwvax!astroatc!brown
From: brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Generic Hard Disk for Compaq 386
Message-ID: <2072@astroatc.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jun 89 20:18:15 GMT
References: <8906131957.AA22435@decwrl.dec.com>
Reply-To: brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout
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In article <8906131957.AA22435@decwrl.dec.com> paine@fungus.dec.com (Willy Paine) writes:
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<Can you please send me list of non-Compaq hard disk that works with
<my Compaq 386/16?  Currently I have 130 megB but this has some problem
<so would like to buy couple of 30 megB generic hard drive. I am 
<wondering if MiniScribe or Seagate works with Compaq. 
< 
<Compaq historically does not support 3rd party hardware so it is 
<difficult for me to check rom for correct setup.

I don't have a list, but that is kind-of unimportant.  But, if you want to
use a standard old ST-506 interface hard drive, you will also have to get
a new hard disk controller, since the current controller will NOT work with
ST-506 type drives.  The Compaq 386/16 that I used to use at Nicolet was
set up with a ST-506 70Mb hard drive.  The internal hard disk controller
card was turned off and a different controller installed.

When you get the drive and controller, be sure to ask what the Compaq BIOS
configuration number is.
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