[comp.unix.microport] ESDI drive experience ?

john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) (01/12/89)

     Can anyone recommend any specific ESDI drives in the ~300MB range
to be used with Microport V/386 ?  I would be interested in hard
disk only controller combos (no floppy). I've seen a lot of ads 
recently for Miniscribe, Maxtor and CDC and just curious to what the
best MB-for-the-buck is these days. Thanks.


					John


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rock@rancho.uucp (Rock Kent) (01/13/89)

In article <204@wa3wbu.UUCP> john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes:

	Can anyone recommend any specific ESDI drives in the ~300MB range
   to be used with Microport V/386 ?  I would be interested in hard . . .

I've been using a Maxtor 330mb disk on a WD1007-WA2 controller for
several months under uport Sys V/386 with no problems.

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neighorn@qiclab.UUCP (Steve Neighorn) (01/16/89)

In article <204@wa3wbu.UUCP> john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes:
>	Can anyone recommend any specific ESDI drives in the ~300MB range
>   to be used with Microport V/386 ?  I would be interested in hard . . .

Try the Maxtor 4380 ESDI drive with an Adaptek 2322B controller. The
4380 is fast, relatively quite (doesn't sound like a Geiger counter ala
the 1140) and works well with Unix. I posted a message describing the
setup of a Unix 3.2 system with the 4380/2322B a few weeks ago.
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