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From: usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: compaq drives and beeps help
Keywords: compaq compatibility drives beeps
Message-ID: <5630@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 2 Dec 89 03:00:37 GMT
References: <489@cpqhou.UUCP>
Reply-To: las@frith.UUCP (Larry A. Shields {runs Lunapark})
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State University, E. Lansing
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In article <489@cpqhou.UUCP> scottn@cpqhou.UUCP (Scott Nesbitt) writes:
>The compaq internal drive controller is specially designed by compaq and
>conner and only compaq (or conner) drives are compatible.  The compaq
>esdi controller confirms to the industry standard for esdi drives, all
>esdi drives should work with it.
>

Is not the esdi drive controler an internal drive controller?  Are you
saying that other esdi drives will work with the compaq esdi controller
as in the compaq 386/20?  

==larry

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