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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: RLL controllers & MFM disks
Summary: Good choice
Message-ID: <379@crdos1.crd.ge.COM>
Date: 18 Sep 89 19:11:58 GMT
References: <1989Sep14.163540.10746@i88.isc.com> <1989Sep15.074504.6420@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
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In article <1989Sep15.074504.6420@agate.berkeley.edu>, ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu writes:

|  My current set up (WD controller + 4114) works fine under DOS. The real
|  test for me is when (pretty soon I hope) I install 386/ix on this
|  machine.

  I replaced an Adaptek with a WD for use under UNIX, and the
performance was about 3 times faster. DOS performance was about the
same. I had a Perstor PS180, but the early models (hard disk only)
didn't work with UNIX. The WD should work with 386/ix or Xenix.
-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon