marka@phi.UUCP (Mark Allen) (12/31/90)
A friend recently bought an old Leading Edge Model D, 8088, CGA, 512K, 2 floppy
disk drives. He would like to add a hard disk drive. Does anyone recommend
any hard disks for these machines. Also will the present controller card
support a hard disk. Checked his manuals and can only find reference to floppy disks 3 and 4. Would like hear anyone's experience with this.
Thanks in advance.
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PIZZA HUT INC. "U.L. listed, Caution indoor use only." / U \ jayapal@motcid.UUCP (Jay Jayapalan) (01/04/91)
marka@phi.UUCP (Mark Allen) writes: >A friend recently bought an old Leading Edge Model D, 8088, CGA, 512K, 2 floppy >disk drives. He would like to add a hard disk drive. Does anyone recommend >any hard disks for these machines. Also will the present controller card >support a hard disk. Checked his manuals and can only find reference to floppy disks 3 and 4. Would like hear anyone's experience with this. My recent experience is with adding a hard drive to an XT clone. I think Leading Edge is an XT clone also. Under this assumption, the follwing information may be useful. I purchased a seagate 40 megabyte 28ms drive (SK251-1, I think) which provides an MFM interface and Wester Digital Gen2 hard disk drive controller card. (~ $280 for both from Soft Warehouse). I think your friend will need a separate disk drive controller for hard disk but the one I bought was only about $40. In spite of the fact my machine is an ancient 4.77 Mhz model adding this hard drive has enhanced the performance quite a bit as for as reading and storing files go. Jay Jayapalan Motorola Inc. Opinions expressed are mine and does not involve Motorola Inc. uunet: motcid!marble!jayapal