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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: RLL vs IDE
Message-ID: <1990Oct23.011603.28498@amd.com>
Date: 23 Oct 90 01:16:03 GMT
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In article <27880001@hprpcd.HP.COM> patf@hprpcd.HP.COM (pat fung) writes:
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|       One word of warning about IDE drives. If you intent to add a second
|IDE drive, you may have to stuck with the same manufacturer. I have try to
|use a CONNER and a Quantum drive together, no way. Different manufacturers
|use different master/slave handshake scheme. Beware!

If this is true, those idiots can go suck eggs. I'm going to stick
with good old ST-506.

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