Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!hal!msb
From: msb@hal.UUCP (Monty S. Baveja)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: HELP!!!
Keywords: anybody wanna buy a used oxide planer?
Message-ID: <329@hal.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 89 15:55:08 GMT
References: <105@toybox.UUCP> <889@infmx.UUCP>
Reply-To: msb@hal.UUCP (Monty S. Baveja)
Organization: Biometry Computing Facility
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In article <889@infmx.UUCP> kevinf@infmx.UUCP (Kevin Franden) writes:
>In article <105@toybox.UUCP>, msa@toybox.UUCP (Mark Anacker) writes:
>	{stuff deleted}
I just put in a MAXTOR 8380 (380MB unformatted) in our COMPAQ286 with
a ESDI controller.  The disk is now working fine, however I ran into the
same problem with the old COMPAQ disk (40MB) which is not compatible
with anything out there, not even a COMPAQ Deskpro (XT compatible). So,
now there is a 40MB disk sitting there doing nothing.  My advice is to
stay away from COMPAQ and IBM goods if you want to work on their innards
yourself.  COMPAQ like IBM thinks that its customers are too stupid to
work on hardware themselves and are rich enough to pay $65/hr. for a 
serviceman everytime something goes wrong.

		Monty (I love Northgate) Baveja