osbornk@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Kasey S. Osborn) (10/25/90)
I'm thinking about putting the following in my Wyse AT: Rodime IDE 80 Meg (19 ms, 1/2 height, 1:1 interleave) Apparently IDE is a new formatting scheme like MFM or RLL. Does anyone have one of these beasts going with OS/2? Any problems? I'm probably being paranoid, but I've never heard of IDE formatting and my dealer doesn't know much about it. Any information about IDE would be appreciated. Kasey
goldman@mbcl.rutgers.edu (10/29/90)
In article <21278@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU>, osbornk@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Kasey S. Osborn) writes: > I'm thinking about putting the following in my Wyse AT: > > Rodime IDE 80 Meg (19 ms, 1/2 height, 1:1 interleave) > > Apparently IDE is a new formatting scheme like MFM or RLL. Does > anyone have one of these beasts going with OS/2? Any problems? > I'm probably being paranoid, but I've never heard of IDE formatting > and my dealer doesn't know much about it. > > Any information about IDE would be appreciated. IDE is a disk standard that Conner Peripherals (? in conjunction with Compaq?) came up with. It's the standard drive you'll find in a Compaq computer. I'm not very knowledgeable on hardware, but my understanding is that it's a higher-level interface than ST-506; more of the drive electronics reside on the drive, rather than the controller card. I also believe that an IDE drive typically has a small disk cache on the drive itself. I am using a Conner 100 Mbyte IDE drive in my Dataworld clone at home and am running IBM OS/2 1.2 SE without any problems. Unless Rodime haven't adhered to the standard, I think you'll be perfectly fine. Adrian Adrian Goldman | Internet: Goldman@MBCL.Rutgers.Edu Molecular Biology Computing Laboratory | Bitnet: Goldman@BioVAX Waksman Insitute, | Phone: (908) 932-4864 Rutgers University, | Fax: (908) 932-5735 Piscataway, NJ 08855 USA |