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From: pipkins@qmsseq.imagen.com (Jeff Pipkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ESDI Compatibility (was Re: ESDI controller/disk recommendations wanted)
Keywords: ESDI disk controllers standards formatting
Message-ID: <58@qmsseq.imagen.com>
Date: 4 Dec 89 18:29:38 GMT
References: <259@cica.cica.indiana.edu> <52@qmsseq.imagen.com> <10869@thorin.cs.unc.edu>
Reply-To: pipkins@qmsseq.UUCP (Jeff Pipkins)
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Organization: QMS Inc., Mobile, Alabama
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My reply was from both ignorance and experience.

Experience: I bought a Gateway 2000 with a 150 MB ESDI disk.  They shipped
it loaded with DOS and some programs, and of course, with an ESDI controller.
I turned it off, took out their ESDI controller, plugged in the HardCache
ESDI card from CompuAdd, turned it back on, and...  No boot device, etc.
I ran SETUP again (from ROM) and tried again.  Same thing.

Ignorance: I don't know why.  The installation instructions for the HardCache
tell you to do the low-level format after installing the board.  Before I
bought it, the salesman on the phone said that it would indeed work with
the drive I had ordered, but that I *may* want to reformat it.  He didn't
say why.  Could it be that before I didn't have 1:1 interleave?  That
would hardly explain the boot sector missing, though, would it?