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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: CompuAdd hard drive with DELL ESDI controller?
Message-ID: <557@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 28 Feb 90 03:29:39 GMT
References: <50.25e98f40@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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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.

  Unless you have some unusual configuration there is no such thing as a
Dell disk controller. All of ours, 310s and 325s, have WD1007s as far as
I know.
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bill davidsen - davidsen@sixhub.uucp (uunet!crdgw1!sixhub!davidsen)
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