AT&T motherboard floppy controller

debula DEBULA-R at osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu
Fri Nov 11 02:20:06 AEST 1988


I too have run into the problem of testing out a controller (a WD1003-WA2, I
believe it was).  I found that I couldn't get the combo of motherboard
floppy with WD hard disk.  I DID find that if I disconnected & ignored
the motherboard AT&T floppy cables & instead used the floppy controller on
the card it worked fine.  Ultimately, I got around the problem by ordering
the 1:1 interleave WD1006-WAH (sans floppy controller) MFM controller.
I have an AT&T 6386-16 WGS running *uport.  I've got a Fujitsu 120Mb ESDI
on order & plan to use a WD1007-WAH sans floppy controller which should also
prove interesting.  Incidently, has anyone else out there configuring
hard drives noticed that AT&T seems to have (based on my admittedly limited
experience) a rather unique set of supported hard drives in their ROM (unique
is the kind word for it)?



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