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- From: davem@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave McCrady)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: ESDI hard drive
- Message-ID: <aVcVXB5w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 23:50:45 MST
- References: <1993Jan18.192442.17247@spdc.ti.com>
- Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #8, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- lilley@epcot.spdc.ti.com (Shannon Lilley) writes:
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- - I have just acquired a full height hard drive that according to my book uses
- - the ESDI/st506 interface. My question is can it be low level formatted with a
- - MFM controller,with expected loss of capacity,without causing problems? I kno
- - you can do this with RLL drives. Thanks.
- -
- - Shannon Lilley
- - lilley@spdc.ti.com
- -
-
- No. The cabling for the drive is the same as the mfm/rll variety but the
- similarity ends there. It will not work with anything but an ESDI controller.
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- Dave McCrady davem@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
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