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From: burgin@uncecs.edu (Robert Burgin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: IDE Hard Drives
Message-ID: <1990Feb5.033723.18539@uncecs.edu>
Date: 5 Feb 90 03:37:23 GMT
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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Can anyone give me some information regarding the newer Integrated
Drive Electronics hard drives?  In particular, what are the pros
and cons of IDE vs ESDI, SCSI, and MFM?

I'm specifically looking at CompuAdd's 80mB IDE drive with 19 ms
access, a 32 K cache, and a 1:1 interleave.

Thanks
--rb