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From: msa@toybox.UUCP (Mark Anacker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: HELP!!!
Keywords: anybody wanna buy a used oxide planer?
Message-ID: <105@toybox.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 89 20:22:00 GMT
Organization: USWest NSI, Bellevue, WA
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HELP!!!
  Yesterday, the 40mb disk in my Compaq 386 bit the oxide... with
  a screech that could be heard across the office.  I need to get
  a new drive fairly soon.  Compaq tends to be pretty IBMPC
  compatible, but this drive is not an ESDI drive, but something
  unique to Compaq.  The best price I've found so far is $1086.
  $1K for a mere 40mb - YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING!  So, the question
  is, has anyone out there managed to get a non-Compaq disk to
  work?  Or, have you been able to use a non-Compaq controller and
  a more standard drive?  I tried installing an IBM AT controller,
  but it hangs in the POST.

  Please reply by e-mail to save the net.  Thanks for the time.
-- 
Mark Anacker, US West Network Systems Inc., Bellevue, WA
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