Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!boon
From: boon@geac.UUCP (Boon-Ping Chew)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: WD1002-WA2 controllers, 10Mhz or 12Mhz ??
Keywords: AT, disk controllers, WD1002
Message-ID: <2539@geac.UUCP>
Date: 6 Apr 88 12:00:10 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.2539
Posted: Wed Apr  6 08:00:10 1988
Distribution: na
Organization: GEAC Computers, Toronto, CANADA
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    Hi, fellow netlanders, 
  
       Does anyone know if there is any difference between the
 WD1002-WA2 Floopy disk/hard disk controller rated at 10Mhz and the same
controller rated at 12Mhz. I am trying to put together a 12Mhz AT clone
Do I the need to spend the extra $50 for the 12 Mhz controller ?.
I will be using the controller with a CDC Wren-II 86 meg drive and would
like to go to as small an interleave factor as I can. What interleave
factor can the controllers (10Mhz and 12Mhz model) accomodate ?
Is there any other different between the two controller besides the
speed rating? If I upgrade later to a 386 motherboard which controller
would be better or is there any difference ?? Does ISC, microport and
XENIX-386 support the WD1002-WA2 (12Mhz) controller ?
       Does anyone has any experience with Roland printers ?? I would
like to know how you would rated them against the more popular brands
like Espon, NEC etc.
       Please email all response. If there is sufficient response,
I will summarize to the net.
 
       Many thanks to all.
 
 
       Boon.