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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: two questions about maxtor drives
Message-ID: <4100@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jun 91 00:09:10 GMT
References: <1991Jun11.221208.8786@slcs.slb.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <1991Jun11.221208.8786@slcs.slb.com> andy@slcs.slb.com (Andy Hazlewood) writes:
| First question: I have two Maxtor EXT-4380 drives.  These drives are soft
| sectored.  Are there any pc controllers out there that would drive these
| things?  The drives are not switchable to hard sectoring.  I assume they
| would require some kind of ESDI controller.

DTC. I have two. I would love to be able to run with some other
controller... still, the price was right. I don't know you *can't* use
other controllers, but DTC "came with."
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