Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu!readdm From: readdm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David M. Read) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Any experience with ST277-R and WD 1006XXX Message-ID: <38366@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 17 Oct 90 05:39:47 GMT References: <107245@convex.convex.com> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: readdm@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David M. Read) Distribution: usa Organization: UT-Austin Nuclear Physics (Jerry's Kids) Lines: 26 In article <> baji@mozart.Berkeley.EDU (Balanjaninath Edupuganty) writes: >Has anyone used this combination of Seagate 65MB RLL drive and WD controller. >I can't remeber the letter codes. >Also is this combination faster/better than a Maxtor 40MB IDE? > >Any thing you have to share will be appreciated. Thanks. I am curently using exactly this combination in a "homebrew" machine that I assembled last May. The controller in question is the WD-1006-VS-R-2. I have had zero problems with the combination. It's fairly fast, and so far completely reliable. Only one warning, and a suggestion: when you go to format the drive, the DEBUG address of the format routine is at CC00:0005 instead of the normal C800:0005...That kinda threw me for a loop when I was first trying to set up the system. The suggestion: throw away that repulsive "On-Track" software they ship with the drive to avoid the 32MB partition limit. The stuff is brain-dead. Go get yourself MS-DOS 4.01 or use the multi-partition mode in 3.3 and live with it. The "On-Track" (use that phrase loosely!) software slows down the system incredibly! -- Dave Read | read@physics.utexas.edu | #include UT-Austin Nuclear Physics | read@lampf.lanl.gov | #define flame /dev/null