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From: jwd@unx.sas.com (John W. DeBoskey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware
Subject: Adding non-IBM ESDI drive to Mod 80-071
Message-ID: <1990Aug02.161028.18674@unx.sas.com>
Date: 2 Aug 90 16:10:28 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.
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Hello all,

   I've been reading with some interest the articles concerning adding
a 2nd harddisk and the formating differences.

   I have a Model 80-071. If I understand what I've read correctly,
I should be able to pop any ESDI hard drive in and low-level format
it once I've patched the llformat program on the reference disk.

   If this is correct, it's a tremendous help, especially considering
the price difference between IBM & non-IBM ESDI drives.

   A question: Does the bios format routine actually WRITE the bad
track info onto the disk, or is the info not written and ignored
in future references to it?

                                         Thanks Much!
                                                   John

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