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From: gungner@maui.cs.ucla.edu (David Gungner)
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Subject: Re: ESDI disks for RT (AOS 4.3)
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Date: 30 May 89 04:06:15 GMT
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In article <3396@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM> dyer@ursa-major.SPDCC.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
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>results were identical.  There has been talk of the need for a shortened
>index pulse by the IBM controller, but a Maxtor support person in Austin
>told me that recent drives (which this one is) shouldn't need any modification.

I was told several months ago by Maxtor San Jose technical support that
hardware modifications would no longer be necessary, but the jumpering
would have to be changed to work with the sortened index pulse.  San
Jose technical support number (at least it was 2 months ago) is
408-432-1700.  If they can't help you after a few calls, you can
usually talk directly to one of the design engineers who has memorized
the timing and layout of the 4380E interface and control boards.


David Gungner
gungner@cs.ucla.edu    
ucla machine perception lab   213-825-6121