[comp.sys.ibm.pc] ESDI controller

mg32+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Ginsberg) (10/06/89)

I have a 300+ megabyte ESDI hard drive from miniscribe with an access rate of
around 16ms.  I need a controller... I would like something

1> dependable
2> compatible with such things as SpinRite
3> FAST

Read FAST any way you like.  If you can tell me about cached controllers that
work nicely, great... anything would be appreciated... This is for running
under MS-DOS 4.01.  Another thing, if possible, I'd like it to be able to be
used under DesqView (I've heard that some controllers come to their knees when
DesqView windows are doing multiple requests... I guess caching would help this
significantly).

My price range is wide open, so make suggestions...

Send mail to me and I will post a summary.

Thanks again,


--Michael Ginsberg
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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mg32+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Ginsberg) (10/06/89)

I have a 300+ megabyte ESDI hard drive from miniscribe with an access rate of
around 16ms.  I have an 80386 system with a standard AT bus running at 33mhz,
with an AMI bios.

I need a controller... I would like something

1> dependable
2> compatible with such things as SpinRite
3> FAST

Read FAST any way you like.  If you can tell me about cached controllers that
work nicely, great... anything would be appreciated... This is for running
under MS-DOS 4.01.  Another thing, if possible, I'd like it to be able to be
used under DesqView (I've heard that some controllers come to their knees when
DesqView windows are doing multiple requests... I guess caching would help this
significantly).

My price range is wide open, so make suggestions...

Send mail to me and I will post a summary.
Thanks again,

--Michael Ginsberg
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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ARPA:  mg32+@andrew.cmu.edu              |Electrocution, n:
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UUCP:  ...!harvard!andrew.cmu.edu!mg32+  |    all the modern improvements.
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Sex is not the answer.  Sex is the question.  Yes is the answer.