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From: tneale@aeras.UUCP (Tom Neale)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: WD / IBM 3.5" 300+MB disk drive
Message-ID: <378@aeras.UUCP>
Date: 8 Sep 89 20:14:06 GMT
References: <11792@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Reply-To: tneale@aeras.UUCP (Tom Neale)
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In article <11792@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> tim@cit-vax.UUCP (Timothy L. Kay) writes:
>
>Well, Western Digital is about to start shipping IBM-manufactured 3.5"
>disk drives with a capacity of more than 300 MB.  This sounds like a
>nice disk drive.
>My question is, "Can I use my regular SCSI interface to talk to this
>drive, given that the drive is SCSI II?"

Yes.  Their support of SCSI II is limited to some of the commands and
features of that spec, not the extended addressing or speed.  There 
do appear to be a couple of quirks in the drive such as mode select pages
being a bit different than other manufacturers.

Can't help you with the other query, though.
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