Re: NCL 5525 AT Hard Disk Controller

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From: Karl Lehenbauer
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 1990 15:34

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In article <1124@urbana.mcd.mot.com> jjohnson@urbana.mcd.mot.com (Jeff Johnson) writes:
>I have recently inherited an NCL 5525 HD controller.  It appears to be
>able to control 2 hard and 2 floppy drives.  Does anyone have any
>information about this controller or better yet the address and/or phone
>number to National Computer Ltd.? 

I was unable to run Unix with an NCL disk controller.  I incurred a lot of
grief to find that out.  I would not touch an NCL controller with a twenty 
meter cattle prod, but they may have fixed them subsequently -- it did
work OK from DOS.
-- 
-- uunet!ficc!karl "...as long as there is a Legion of super-Heroes, 
   uunet!sugar!karl       all else can surely be made right."   -- Sensor Girl

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From: karl@ficc.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
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Subject: Re: NCL 5525 AT Hard Disk Controller
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Date: 8 Feb 90 15:34:53 GMT
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