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From: pjh@mccc.uucp (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Those cheap ESDI 320 meg HD's..
Message-ID: <1990Sep1.150247.18828@mccc.uucp>
Date: 1 Sep 90 15:02:47 GMT
References: <1990Aug28.161319@STRATUS.COM> <1990Aug30.015747.8628@mccc.uucp> <1990Aug31.025613.13790@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
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In article <1990Aug31.025613.13790@chinet.chi.il.us> chaz@chinet.chi.il.us (Charlie Kestner) writes:
=In article <1990Aug30.015747.8628@mccc.uucp> pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) writes:
=>Besides an ESDI controller and the drive, what else do I need in order
=>to plunk an ESDI drive into a 386/AT?  Must my BIOS be able to handle
=>"type 47"?  Must the controller be more sophisticated than a WD1007A? 
=>Do I need any driver software?
=>
=
=  You will most likely need a special formatting program such as
=Disk Manager.  

	Thanks.  I think you're saying that I don't need to change the
BIOS if I lie to it, right?

	What about swapping a 150MB MFM drive (also more than 1024
cyls) for a 72 MB?  Just lie to the BIOS and leave it up to DM?

Pete

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