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From: ersys!davem@nro.cs.athabascau.ca (Dave McCrady)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: New hard disk for old AT?!
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Date: 7 Dec 90 10:44:25 GMT
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poulsen@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (David K. Poulsen) writes:

> Some additional information.  The disk that's in my AT now is a Seagate
> ST 4038, which the system sees as a "type 20" hard drive.  I believe this
> is a MFM disk because I'm fairly sure the controller is MFM.  I can't find
> anyone who would sell me this type of disk (it's probably obsolete).  My
> JDR Microelectronics catalog sells some Seagate drives such as ST 225
> (20Mb MFM) and ST 238 (32Mb RLL) but I have no idea if these are compatible
> with my system without getting a new controller or changing cabling or
> whatever.
> 
> Dave Poulsen
> poulsen@csrd.uiuc.edu

 The 4038 is an MFM drive, and it should be possible to add any drive
using MFM encoding.  Which you choose depends on the storage required.
The choises from seagate range from the ST125 (20mb to the ST4096 (80 mb, 
fullheight...)


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