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- From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: disk controller info- WD1006V-SM2 F000 X7
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.135838.23182@panix.com>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 13:58:38 GMT
- References: <FAUNT.92Dec27202621@netcom.Netcom.COM>
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- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC
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- In article <FAUNT.92Dec27202621@netcom.Netcom.COM> faunt@netcom.Netcom.COM (Doug Faunt N6TQS 510-655-8604) writes:
- >A friend of mine has this controller in a 386, and would like to hook
- >up a Maxtor XT1140 to it. I looked in the WD files on simtel, and it
- >looks like it might work, but we don't know the procedure necessary.
- >The Maxtor has 15 heads, 916 cylinders. She's got a 40Mb drive as
- >unit 0. The number for the WD BBS given in an earlier message seems
- >to be out-of-service.
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- This MFM controller will definitely work on an XT1140. However,
- you will not able to use the extended capacity of the drive (XT1140's
- can usually be formatted to 1224 cylinders) unless you use a BIOS
- extended such as the one in SpeedStor or Disk Mangler.
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