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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Vanloon Michael Lee)
Subject: Re: ST1144A or CP30104
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Date: Wed, 1 May 1991 01:19:02 GMT
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In <1991Apr30.223206.10229@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> purkers@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU (Scott Purkerson) writes:

>In article <1991Apr24.201053.12622@lynx.CS.ORST.EDU> I wrote:
>>
>>Earlier there was discussion about the Seagate ST1144A
>>hard drive; I'd like to get mail from people who have actually
>>installed Coherent on one...[stuff deleted]
>>
>>I'm also thinking of buying a Conner CP30104 (instead of the 1144)...
>>[stuff deleted]
>>
>>Last of all (but perhaps most important), I've heard that using IDE
>>drives may be a little trouble...
>>[stuff deleted]
>>...I will post a follow-up article with info that I receive.
>>

>[special thanks to Robert K. Hamilton, David Baldwin, Michael L. VanLoon
>and John Winans for the following information. :-)]

>There were three replies about the Seagate ST-1144A and one about the
>Conner CP30104.

[stuff about ST-1144A deleted]

>The Conner CP30104 drive sounds like it has a good probability of 
>working with Coherent.  [A note of general info: the CP30104 is a 
>small, thin 120MB drive that must have just recently been released
>by Conner. Like the ST-1144A, it has a 19ms av seek time.  The CP3104
>is a 25ms, 100MB drive which is also small, quiet and fast.]  Although
>the reply to me was about the CP3104, the person states he was able to run
>DOS, Coherent, and SCO Unix without any hardware or software problems.
>He mentioned that his BIOS is user definable, but didn't give the
>brand name (AMI? Award?...).

I have a Phoenix BIOS with configurable drive parameters.  I use these param's
for my Conner CP3104 (sorry, didn't know about the CP30104):

	Drive type:	48
	Cylinders:	776
	Heads:		8
	Sectors/Track:	33

>Thanks to all the people who replied! :-)

Works great for me.  Glad I could be of help. :-)

>purkers@jacobs.cs.orst.edu


