[net.micro.pc] Information request on Great Lakes hard drive

rtb@ihuxi.UUCP (todd) (06/11/84)

  Does anyone have information on compatabilty of the Great Lakes
internal hard drive for the IBM PC. I"m especially interested in
hardware compatabiltiy because eventually I want to get UN*X in my
IBM system and I understand that the reads and writes to hard disk
with an operating system other than MS-DOS can be a problem if you
don't have a truly compatable hard drive controller board. I know
that the Great Lakes system uses the Xebec controller board if that
is any help. Also, I heard that the hard drive controller board
on the IBM-XT has a floppy contoller on the same board, is this
true ?

						Thanks in advance
						Roy T. Bradstrum
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