Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!gatech!cuae2!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uiucuxc!karamich From: karamich@uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: hard/floppy cntrllr f/IBM-PC Message-ID: <21900185@uiucuxc> Date: Mon, 3-Nov-86 12:33:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucuxc.21900185 Posted: Mon Nov 3 12:33:00 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 5-Nov-86 21:12:44 EST References: <2183@ecsvax.UUCP> Lines: 24 Nf-ID: #R:ecsvax.UUCP:2183:uiucuxc:21900185:000:772 Nf-From: uiucuxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU!karamich Nov 3 11:33:00 1986 I have a ST225 with a Western Digital combo hard/floppy controller. I've had no problems so far (about a year now). I did a low-level format using debug, with 1 way interleaving. The drive formatted perfectly. NO BAD SECTORS. Freaked me out! But I wouldn't use the original PC power supply to handle the hard drive. Who knows what might fry ......... tom karamichos U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Computing Services Office -- Microcomputer Consulting karamich@uxc.CSO.UIUC.EDU ihnp4!pyrchi!uiucuxc!karamich ------------------------------------------------------------- Women -- you can't live without them, you can't shoot them! -------------------------------------------------------------