davidg@uns-helios.nevada.edu (Davig Gonzales) (09/07/89)
----------------------- Hi, Our company has some Compaq 386's (Deskpro 386/20 Model 60) that currently are running with one 60 Mb Hard Disk. My question is: can you upgrade the system(s) to include a second 60 Mb hard drive? I heard somewhere that Compaq uses their own disk controllers. Is this correct? And if so, does that mean that I will need a *special* hard drive? If not, what type of 60 Mb (or greater) hard drive could/should I get? Thanks, David A. Gonzales ERC davidg@uns-helios.NEVADA.EDU -------------------
caa@garnet.ssd.cdc.com (Charles A. Anderson) (09/08/89)
davidg@uns-helios.nevada.edu (Davig Gonzales) writes: > I heard somewhere >that Compaq uses their own disk controllers. Is this correct? And if so, >does that mean that I will need a *special* hard drive? If not, what type of >60 Mb (or greater) hard drive could/should I get? > davidg@uns-helios.NEVADA.EDU I also have recently acquired a compaq 386/20 with a 40 meg drive and I wanted to upgrade it to a Wren V. Intially I figured that the compaq probally just had an ESDI controller in it so I should be able to plug in a 383meg wren v but when I found that the price difference was only $475 between a 383meg ESDI and a 702meg SCSI drive (about 2/3 cost per byte) I think I'll try to get the SCSI version. Does anyone have any experience with SCSI dirve in the compaq, and what SCSI controllers do you recommend? -Charles Anderson (since this doesn't have much to do with postscript I just posted it to c.s.i.p.) -- Charles Anderson | caa@garnet.ssd.cdc.com \ Disclaimer: I said what? ----------------/ caa@midgard.mn.org \ But CDC didn't. I woke up this morning and it was nice out, so I left it out.