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- From: berger@atropa (Mike Berger)
- Subject: Re: WANTED INFO: what is a Xebec HD
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:00:44 GMT
- Keywords: HELP!, XEBEC, FUNKY DRIVE, FUNKY CONTROLLER
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- hougland@enuxha.eas.asu.edu (Kriss A. Hougland) writes:
- >Thanks in advance for any advice.
-
- >I have a friend who bought a Xebec HD. From the sounds of the controller
- >and interface, it sounds like a proprietary IDE with a 50 pin edge connector
- >(sounds like SCSI) and a 1/2 heigth, 1/2 long controller card (IDE?).
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- >The HD is 20 megs (Xebec marked HD -- right!) and the controller is Xebec too.
- >He wants to add another drive to bring him up to 40 Meg or better.
- >Any clues? The guy wants to get to 40 megs total with a civilized MFM regualr
- >drive.
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- I thought Xebec went out of business before IDE drives were around.
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- Mike Berger
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