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From: mms%sordid@Sun.COM (Michael Silverstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need info on Quantum hard drive
Summary: No problems with Q540
Keywords: hard drives Quantum Q540
Message-ID: <80557@sun.uucp>
Date: 7 Dec 88 22:34:40 GMT
References: <392@deimos.cis.ksu.edu>
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Reply-To: mms@sun.UUCP (Michael Silverstein)
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View
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In article <392@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> paryavi@harris.cis.ksu.edu (Saiid Paryavi) writes:
>Does anyone know anything about the Quantum Q540 hard drive?  Is this a
>standard ST506/412 interface drive?  If so, what XT or AT controller
>works best with it?
>
>Thanks for the info.

I bought one in 1983, being the first kid on the block to have more than
10 Mb in a PC or XT. It has, and continues to, work flawlessly since that
time.

Regular ST506 interface, it should work with any controller (WD, Mountain,
nameless clone, etc).

A tad slow by today's standards, however, it's 40 ms average access.

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