davidk@dartvax.UUCP (David C. Kovar) (01/26/84)
I am considering buying a second hard disk for an IBM XT, mainly due to the fact that I am planning on bringing up either Coherent or PC/IX but I still want to have 6 meg or so for DOS. Awhile back, one of the PC magazines reported that the IBM 10M fixed disk was one of the best out, even though it was not all that good in itself. Is this still the case? If not, who sells the best 10M-20M fixed disk? How do the prices compare? Are they completely compatible (if there is such a thing) or will PC/IX refuse to read the second disk? Please mail replies and thanks in advance. -- David C. Kovar Usenet: {linus, decvax}!dartvax!davidk ARPA: kovar@MIT-ML (Infrequent) U.S. Snail HB 3140 Dartmouth College Hanover NH 03755 "The difficult we did yesterday, the impossible we are doing now."
johnl@haddock.UUCP (01/31/84)
#R:dartvax:-64600:haddock:13200007:000:743 haddock!johnl Jan 30 11:19:00 1984 At the moment, if you want to run PC/IX on your PC, you need the IBM controller and disks. PC/IX is happy to use both disks. It even lets you define more than one partition per disk, which is occasionally handy and can make selective backup more convenient. We have a bunch of two-disk systems, some with Miniscribe disks and some more recent ones with Seagates. It appears that if your disks work at all, they'll work forever. We had some DOA trouble but our dealer (Sears in downtown Boston) swapped them for us. Another problem was a power supply that worked fine with one disk but feeped when you plugged in two. Again, they swapped it and we've had no trouble since. John Levine, ima!johnl PS: Followups to net.micro.pc, please.