sadeniem@osteri.csc.fi (Markus Sadeniemi FUNET) (12/09/90)
I intend to buy a Gateway 2000 (386 based) micro and run ESIX on it. Does ESIX support an IDE 200 MB Maxtor disk, or do I have to buy a (more expensive) ESDI disk? Markus
fangchin@elaine39.stanford.edu (Chin Fang) (12/10/90)
>I intend to buy a Gateway 2000 (386 based) micro and >run ESIX on it. Does ESIX support an IDE 200 MB Maxtor >disk, or do I have to buy a (more expensive) ESDI disk? >Markus I don't know about Maxtor IDE drives. But I would like to recommand Cornor's 210 Mb IDE (or SCSI) drives. The reasons: (1) I have installed 2 IDE Cornor drives so far on two no name 33 Mhz motherboards together with ESIX Rev.D with sucess. (different m.b.s) (2) They are inexpansive (if you consider $850- for the drive and adapter inexpansive. I did such in later Sept. So Cornor drives should cost less now) (3) Cornor drives are very reliable (Stanford's Academic Information Resource SAs like them too - SCSI types however.). Most laptops use Cornor products. (4) They are superbly quiet. It is unbelieveable to someone who has resigned to the chattering of typical hard drives like Fujisus. (5) 3.5" form factor. Space saving. I personally had lots troubles with low-capacity (40 megs) SCSI Maxtor drives before (in a series of more then 10 attempts) so understandably I am somewhat reluctant to go with Maxtors. I could be wrong however, because Maxtor's high capacity ESDI/SCSI drives are very popular in MSDOS Lans (Novell etc) and the fact that Miniscribe is part of their lines now and my Miniscribe 3130ESDI has been trouble-free for more then two years under various ESIX (Rev B - Rev.D). Maybe someone else will give you some comments. But I hope the above info helpful to you. In short, IDE is fine with ESIX. Regards, Chin Fang Mechanical Engineering Department Stanford University fangchin@portia.stanford.edu fang@rocket.cadcam.rok.com
antsu@kontu.utu.fi (12/10/90)
Hi! At least Conner 210MB IDE drive works fine with Esix rev. D Antti-Pekka antsu@kontu.utu.fi