Re: RT ESDI Drives

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From: Dan Ehrlich
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 1990 15:37

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In article <6509@uceng.UC.EDU> pmartin@uceng.UC.EDU (Paul Martin) writes:

Paul> Does anyone know if one can put a standard "PC" ESDI Hard Drive in an RT.
Paul> Also does anyone know where on can find new RT parts (ie third party vendors?)
Paul> I am trying to find extra hard drives for my RT's.

Paul> thanks in advance.

You can buy the drives from MAXTOR.  Make sure that your distributor
understands that you are putting them into an RT.  IBM (just to make life
difficult I am sure) had MAXTOR slightly modify the disks.  You will also
need the AIX 2.2.1 VRM installation diskette in order to format the drive.

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Dan Ehrlich - Sr. Systems Programmer - Penn State Computer Science
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