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From: stecz@hotwheel.dell.com (John Steczkowski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: CompuAdd hard drive with DELL ESDI controller?
Message-ID: <2434@uudell.dell.com>
Date: 27 Feb 90 14:19:02 GMT
References: <50.25e98f40@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu>
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In article <50.25e98f40@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu>,
granroth@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu writes:
> I have a user who wants to replace the DELL 90MB ESDI drive in his
> DELL sys 310 with a 320MB drive from CompuAdd.  I cautioned him that
> I thought I had heard about problems putting non-DELL ESDI drives
> in machines with the DELL ESDI controller.  I would appreciate hearing
> from people that have tried using 3rd party ESDI hard drives with
> the DELL ESDI controller.
> 
> ThanksE6.
> 
> -Larry    Granroth@IowaSP.physics.UIowa.edu    IOWASP::GRANROTH

The only thing to watch out for is the WD1007A controller won't work with some
of the newer drives, basically any 15ms drive won't work.  The WD1007V won't
have any problem with any ESDI drive.

John Steczkowski
Dell Unix Customer Support  P#: (512) 343-3571
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