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From: costis@csi.forth.gr (Costis Aivalis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: building a clone: good stuff vs. trash?
Keywords: clone,homebuilt,motherboard
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Date: 20 Feb 91 10:04:55 GMT
References: <1991Feb15.201920.13743@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> <26973@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> <1991Feb17.180508.3223@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <26986@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
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jdb@reef.cis.ufl.edu (Brian K. W. Hook) writes:

>In article <1991Feb17.180508.3223@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib) writes:
.....
>|>Which brings up the point: what exactly is an IDE 
>|>drive? I'm familiar with ST506, SCSI, ESDI, MFM
>|>and RLL, but IDE is a new term for me.

>IDE can mean many different things to different people.  I have heard it
>mean Integrated Drive Electronics, Intelligent Drive Electronics, Integral
>Drive Electronis, etc. etc.  The first is the most common, but in general
>the IDE interface is a relatively new and popular drive standard.  It has
>superseded both the RLL and MFM drive controllers as the controller of
>choice for most computer companies.

......

>To sum:

>Higher capacity, lower cost, MUCH lower power consumption, relatively high
>speed (vs. RLL and MFM), and high efficiency.

>Brian

And what about Novell drivers? 

It seems that there are contrary informations from distributors
about this. 

Novell authorized dealers say, the Conner-IDE CP3204 can not be the main
disk of a ELS-II server. They also say forget about the Seagate
ST2080A. They suggest one should use the Maxtor 7080A (IDE also).

What is the big difference between these IDE drives that makes
some of them capable of running Novell and others not?

Is the Maxtor 7080A IDE?

Constantine 


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