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From: jhc@mtune.UUCP (Jonathan Clark)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Controller on UNIX pc & external disks
Message-ID: <592@mtune.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-May-86 11:07:45 EDT
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Posted: Mon May  5 11:07:45 1986
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Keywords: Does anybody know anything about this?

In article <520@ethos.UUCP> gary@ethos.UUCP (Gary J. Smith) writes:
>
>1.  Who is the manufacturer of the hard drv controller?
>2.  What is the model number, etc?
>3.  What step rate does it expect? Can you change/reprogram
>    this when installing and formatting a new hard drive?
>
>Are there any success/failure stories out there regarding
>the installation of an external HD on the UNIX pc? 

I didn't take my unix pc apart recently but (from memory) it uses a
Western Digital 1010 controller chip. Sorry, I don't know what it
wants wrt step rates and so forth, but you can format and use quite a
variety of hard disks. Which answers the second question - we have
dozens (if not hundreds) of people using externally mounted hard
disks. I have a 40MB Maxtor, there are other people using Atasi,
Miniscribe, Seagate and so forth. Someone posted an article saying
they had an 80MB Miniscribe (?) working. Good Luck. Remember you can
only put one hard disk on a unix pc (groan).

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Jonathan Clark
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My walk has become rather more silly lately.