Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 4 Feb 1997 18:41:53 -0500 (EST) | From | "Steven N. Hirsch" <> | Subject | Re: Driver for ESDI drive |
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On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> Jim Richey enscribed thusly: > > > Does the MFM/RLL driver work with ESDI drives? If not is there a driver > > fir ESDI? > > I've got several ESDI drives (Maxtor 760Meg, Micropolis 760Meg, and > Micropolis 300Meg) running in numerous systems with a couple different > flavors of ESDI controllers (Western Digital, DTC, and others). All are > working great. >
Yes, I'll second (third?) this. However, I had to play some tricks with the geometry to work around what the controller does for sector sparing. I'm running a Maxtor 760 on a WD controller. It's actually surprisingly fast, considering the era it was built! Linear reads clock at ~1.6MB/s.
Steve
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