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From: brim@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mike Brim - Product Assurance)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: RLL vs IDE
Message-ID: <15361@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 24 Oct 90 12:15:24 GMT
References: <40277@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <27880001@hprpcd.HP.COM> <1990Oct23.011603.28498@amd.com>
Reply-To: brim@cbmvax.commodore.com (Mike Brim - Product Assurance)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Oct23.011603.28498@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
> In article <27880001@hprpcd.HP.COM> patf@hprpcd.HP.COM (pat fung) writes:
> |
> |       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.
> 

This was true with some of the older IDE drives.  In fact I have two Conner 
drives that refuse to work together.  Newer models don't seem to have the prob.
I've used Conner with Quantums with Western Digitals with Seagates.

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