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From: davidsen@antarctica.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ESDI disk controllers
Keywords: installation,Adaptec,help
Message-ID: <10183@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Date: 23 Jul 90 15:17:03 GMT
References: <50-raymond-terry>
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In article <50-raymond-terry>, raymond!terry@galaxia.newport.ri.us writes:
|> I have an opportunity to get a Fujitsu M2249E ESDI disk at a greatly
|> reduced price.  I currently have a 12Mhz 286 with an AMI bios, the I/O
|> bus operates at 8mhz.  Before getting the disk drive I would like to
know the
|> following.

|> 2.  What are the advantages or disavantages of the following controllers?
|> 
|>                     Western Digital
|> WD1007A-WA2
|> WD1007V-SE2

  This has been a pretty good controller for us, but it is a tad slow.
It may not run 1:1 with all disks, it's 10mbit rather than 15, etc. One
controller we have liked is the CompuAdd. We have found that the cache
makes less diference with unix, but really helps performance with DOS.
Ignoring the cache it has been a nice reliable controller, and we have
used it with a number of drives here.
--
Bill Davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.com, uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
  GE Corp R&D Center, Schenectady NY
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