Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!entally From: entally@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: How to access all of a 676MB ESDI Seagate/WREN under DOS 5 ? Message-ID: <1991Jun18.222551.31540@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> Date: 19 Jun 91 03:25:50 GMT References: <1991Jun17.124112.9416@ufhx1.ufh.ac.za> <31526@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1991Jun18.224611.14197@beach.csulb.edu> Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services Lines: 16 In article <1991Jun18.224611.14197@beach.csulb.edu>, mosbrook@beach.csulb.edu (Brent Mosbrook) writes: > I personally would go with a card like the 1007-se2, whose bios can translate > to 63 spt for you. I have heard good things about the ultrastor card, but > haven't tested it yet with that drive. I agree. We have been using WD1007-SE2 and Ultrastor 12C / 12F conrollers for our large ESDI drives. However we did have some disk access failure problems with the WD1007 controller when the drives are larger than 380MB. With the Ultrastor 12C / 12F controllers, we have not encountered any problems yet. The Ultrastor controllers have special buildin features to handle drives that have more than 1024 cylinders when using DOS (for Novell NetWare 2.15 and above and UNIX Sys V, there is no 1024 limitation). > +--------------------------------------+ Leo> | Brent Mosbrook KC6MWK > | mosbrook@beach.csulb.edu | > +--------------------------------------+