menna@mips.COM (Randy Menna) (11/12/88)
I have a question regarding a specific hardware configuration, so if
you only care about software you may want to hit 'n' now.
I have a compaq 386 with a 70 Meg drive, and I want to add a second
hard disk. I want to add a big one, 100+ Meg or so, but I've been
told that compaq has done some things to their hardware to make life
hard for me. First question, I had assumed that the disk I have is
ST506, but I was informed that it is probably ESDI, and a mangled
esdi at that. How do I find out? I'd like to do one of two things,
either get the adaptek rll controller and reformat my current drive,
and add a second one, or if my controller is esdi add a 120Meg fujitsu
m2344. Are any of these possible. Could it be that I could just plug
the fujitsu into my controler and have it work. Will the rll controler
work with my existing drive (I beleive that it is a cdc).
Anyone who can answer these questions, or who has had a simialar experience
will earn a whole pile a gratitude from me. I really need to solve my
disk crunch problems soon as I can no longer do any work on my machine
(ie less than 1 meg of disk space).
Thanks in advance.
-Randy
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