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From: jayapal@motcid.UUCP (Jay Jayapalan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: adding a hard disk drive
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Date: 3 Jan 91 18:27:53 GMT
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marka@phi.UUCP (Mark Allen) writes:

>A friend recently bought an old Leading Edge Model D, 8088, CGA, 512K, 2 floppy
>disk drives.  He would like to add a hard disk drive.  Does anyone recommend
>any hard disks for these machines.  Also will the present controller card 
>support a hard disk.  Checked his manuals and can only find reference to floppy disks 3 and 4.  Would like hear anyone's experience with this.  

My recent experience is with adding a hard drive to an XT clone. I think
Leading Edge is an XT clone also. Under this assumption, the follwing
information may be useful. I purchased a seagate 40 megabyte 28ms drive
(SK251-1, I think) which provides an MFM interface and Wester Digital
Gen2 hard disk drive controller card. (~ $280 for both from Soft Warehouse).
 

I think your friend will need a separate disk drive controller for hard
disk but the one I bought was only about $40. In spite of the fact my
machine is an ancient 4.77 Mhz model adding this hard drive has enhanced
the performance quite a bit as for as reading and storing files go.

Jay Jayapalan

Motorola Inc.	 Opinions expressed are mine and does not involve
			Motorola Inc.

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