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From: kevinf@infmx.UUCP (Kevin Franden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: HELP!!!
Summary: Adjustment
Keywords: anybody wanna buy a used oxide planer?
Message-ID: <897@infmx.UUCP>
Date: 14 Feb 89 22:05:04 GMT
References: <105@toybox.UUCP> <889@infmx.UUCP> <329@hal.UUCP>
Organization: Informix Software Inc., Menlo Park, CA.
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In article <329@hal.UUCP>, msb@hal.UUCP (Monty S. Baveja) 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.
> 



I will have to stand corrected.  I think I was using the older comapq
disks (I was trying to go the other way... compaq to clone) disks
for my experiment.  Thanks for the correction.

I DO agree with your assessment of Compaq being a (not so) IBM clone in
both architechure and their dealings with end users!

Kevin Franden.
(I *still* said what I said and not my employer)