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From: mludwig@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Mitchell Ludwig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: IDE Hard drive questions...
Message-ID: <1068@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU>
Date: 23 Aug 90 19:01:10 GMT
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Reply-To: mludwig@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Mitchell Ludwig )
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Question :

	I have a Conner ide drive that I've pulled out of a co-worker's
Compaq 386 portable.  The drive is a cp-3101 100 meg drive.  I purchased
a conner ide host adapter to use the drive in another machine.  When I
boot up the new machine, I get a hard disk failure (not a hard disk 
controller failure...)  Conner claims that the cp-3101 was made for Compaq
and has "custom microcode" on it.  The say it's hit or miss whether it will
work on a machine.  Does anyone out there have any ideas as to how the 
heck I can get this custom microcoded drive to work on a vanilla 386?

Please reply, this poor drive is looking for a home inside my pc.

Mitch.