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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: end of the Compaq hard-drive saga
Keywords: $$$ and more $$$
Message-ID: <1295@bucket.UUCP>
Date: 8 Mar 89 21:15:53 GMT
References: <106@toybox.UUCP>
Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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In article <106@toybox.UUCP> msa@toybox.UUCP (Mark Anacker) writes:
<It just burns me that Compaq used custom interfaces for both
<the 40mb and their so-called "ESDI" 130mb drive.  I've gone 
<over the schematics for both drives, and they really played
<some games with the control leads to make sure you didn't put
<a cheap drive on their controller.  I haven't figured out why
<the system wouldn't boot with an AT controller in place instead
<of the Compaq one, but I'm sure it's in the BIOS somewhere.

We buy Compaqs as our "standard" machine. But we don't use their HDs.
Instead we use a standard WD controller. We keep the Compaq HD/floppy/
serial/parallel board. All you have to do is flip *one* dip switch to
make it the secondary controller... 

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