Reading ESDI disks

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Thu Feb 11 18:38:25 CST 2021


On 2/11/21 2:35 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:

> The most likely ISA ESDI would be the WD1007 controller.
> There were a few variant submodels of that, such as with/without floppy
> support, w/wo BIOS ROM.
> 
> http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/manuals/Western%20Digital/WD1007A-WAH%20and%20WA2%20-%20Users%20Guide.pdf

I mostly used DTC ISA controllers.  One side benefit is that they
offered 3 and 4-floppy support on their cards (jumperable).  I think I
still have a 760MB Maxtor around here somewhere that started life as a
Miniscribe.  (Interesting story there).

--Chuck






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