bradbury@oracle.UUCP (Robert Bradbury) (10/13/87)
I have a Compaq 386 system with the standard 130 Mb (Core) drive and the standard Compaq (Western Digital?) ESDI controller in it. I would like to add a 2nd high capacity drive to this system and know that I can get a CDC WREN III with an ESDI interface. Unfortunately Compaq does not sell the cables to do this even though the ESDI controller seems to have a connector on it for a 2nd drive. Can anyone tell me what cables I need to add a 2nd ESDI drive to the Compaq and what vendor might supply them? I think I need a normal cable and an additional daisy chain cable between the two drives as well as a power cable. Does anyone know how to get this kind of real technical information out of Compaq? (The interface through the "authorized dealers" is shall we say "poor".) Email responses are fine unless someone would like to post an "everything you wanted to know about ESDI, SCSI and ST506 interfacing" tutorial to the net (I'm sure there are many of us interested in this type of thing). Thanks in advance. -- Robert Bradbury Oracle Corporation (206) 364-1442 hplabs!oracle!bradbury