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Article #335Re: Large third party ESDI disks for the IBM RT under 4.3 ?
From: William L. Moran Jr.
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1989 05:38
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1989 05:38
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In article <27086@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> tamir@cs.ucla.edu (Yuval Tamir) writes: >Large (> 600 MB) ESDI disks are now available for under $3K >(for example, from CDC and from Maxtor). > I know of one person using a really large ESDI disk on an RT w/4.3. He has a Wren VI (780M) disk. The problem is that it is not supported by any of IBMs normal controllers because it is too fast, so he uses a prototype controller (HESDI I think). I suspect that many of the disks would have a similar problem with controller speed i.e. the regular FESDI controller would not handle them. Bill Moran -- arpa: moran-william@cs.yale.edu or wlm@ibm.com uucp: uunet!bywater!acheron!archet!wlm or decvax!yale!moran-william ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "What is your nationality?" "I'm a drunkard" - H. Bogart
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!bywater!acheron!archet!wlm From: wlm@archet.UUCP (William L. Moran Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt,comp.periphs,comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Large third party ESDI disks for the IBM RT under 4.3 ? Message-ID: <301@archet.UUCP> Date: 14 Sep 89 05:38:25 GMT References: <27086@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Reply-To: wlm@archet.UUCP (William L. Moran Jr.) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.rt Organization: A Desperate and Dedicated Crew Lines: 20