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From: caa@garnet.ssd.cdc.com (Charles A. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Compaq Deskpro 386/20 Hard Disk Upgrades
Keywords: compaq 386 hard drive
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Date: 7 Sep 89 20:15:23 GMT
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davidg@uns-helios.nevada.edu (Davig Gonzales) writes:
>                                                            I heard somewhere
>that Compaq uses their own disk controllers. Is this correct? And if so,
>does that mean that I will need a *special* hard drive? If not, what type of
>60 Mb (or greater) hard drive could/should I get?
>						davidg@uns-helios.NEVADA.EDU

I also have recently acquired a compaq 386/20 with a 40 meg drive and I
wanted to upgrade it to a Wren V.  Intially I figured that the compaq
probally just had an ESDI controller in it so I should be able to plug
in a 383meg wren v but when I found that the price difference was only
$475 between a 383meg ESDI and a 702meg SCSI drive (about 2/3 cost per
byte) I think I'll try to get the SCSI version.  Does anyone have any
experience with SCSI dirve in the compaq, and what SCSI controllers
do you recommend?

-Charles Anderson

(since this doesn't have much to do with postscript I just posted it to
c.s.i.p.)
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I woke up this morning and it was nice out, so I left it out.