Re: Question about CMI 30MB drive

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From: st49th
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 1986 16:45

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In article <838@steinmetz.UUCP> davidsen@kbsvax.UUCP (Davidsen) writes:
>In article <2013@osu-eddie.UUCP> mdf@osu-eddie.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman) writes:
>>Summary:
>>
>>In <278@PSUECL> slc@psuecl.BITNET writes:
>>The manufacture,CMI,made the 20MB drives for the early IBM AT's. There were
>>many problems with that drive when used with AT. A company claims that CMI's
>>30MB drives are totally different (trouble free) from the 20MB drives and
>>sells it for only $349!
>>Does anyone have experience or information about this particular drive?
>
>Used on for 15 months... no problem (type 3). However, IBM XENIX v1.0
>won't work right on it (SCO works fine).

I have used one for about 15 months as well. I was never able to use all
30 Meg when I had the original 1.0 version of XENIX. Now that I have
version 2.0 everything works fine! Version 2.0 Xenix will support
basically any hard drive that is in the bios table.

Shawn Bosley

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Subject: Re: Question about CMI 30MB drive
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