Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!world!decwrl!bacchus.pa.dec.com!shlump.nac.dec.com!hpspwr.enet.dec.com!simon
From: simon@hpspwr.enet.dec.com (Curiosier and curiosier...)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: How Big a Hard Drive Will Fit on an XT?
Message-ID: <15811@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Date: 5 Oct 90 01:00:17 GMT
Sender: newsdaemon@shlump.nac.dec.com
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Lines: 21


In article <8543@inco.UUCP>, jboggs@inco.UUCP (John Boggs) writes...
>I'm currently running an XT-clone with an ARC motherboard and a 20meg
>Seagate hard disk.  I'd like more disk space.  What's the largest capacity
>drive I can install internally in my full-size desktop chassis that will
>be compatible with my system?  What controller will I need to control it?
>I'm running DOS 3.3.

I ran Maxtor 2190 which is 133 Mb formatted.  I do not remember the 
model of the controller, but it was a regular Western Digital MFM 
controller with 3:1 interleave.  The drive was divided into four 
partitions.


---------
Leo Simon			simon@pwrvax.enet.dec.com

Who is not liberal when young, does not have a heart.
Who is not conservative when old, does not have a brain.

						-- W. Churchill