PSB No: S-0125A
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What kind of hard disk drives are available
for the Equity 386/25 Plus?
The Equity 386/25 Plus is available in one hard disk configuration. A
100Mb 3.5” (Conner CP-3104, 25ms access time) hard disk is available.
The hard disk drive offers a 1:1 interleave and uses an embedded
controller with an IDE interface. When installing the 100Mb drive use type
60 in SETUP.
What hard drive controller is used in the Equity 386/25 PLUS?
The Equity 386/25 PLUS uses a controller embedded on the hard drive.
This controller connects to a Task File IDE interface that is integrated in
the system board.
Can the Equity 386/25 PLUS use other hard disk drives and controllers?
Yes, the IDE Interface on the system board can be disabled and other
third party hard drive controllers and drives can be used. The interface
can be disabled by installing a third party controller. The system
automatically detects the controller and disables the embedded IDE
interface. Other embedded controller AT-type drives can also be used with
the IDE Interface.
What extended hard drive support is available in the ROM BIOS that
comes with the Epson Equity 386/25 PLUS?
The Seiko-Epson BIOS will directly support hard drives that range in size
from 10Mb to 153Mb. There is direct support for the Seagate ST-251 and
the ST-4096 hard disks, as well as, several ESDI drives. By providing this
support for 3rd party hard disk drives, the Equity 386/25 PLUS has the
capability to use most 3rd party 8-bit and 16-bit hard disk controllers.
SCSI
drives have their own controllers attached to the drive and should
work correctly when attached to the bus with a host adapter.
The Equity 386/25 PLUS also has a User Definable setting that allows you
to set up hard disk drives that are not supported by the Equity 386/25
PLUS Drive Type Table. In SETUP, a sub-menu lists the settings you can
change for each drive: the number of cylinders (tracks), the number of
read/write heads, the number of sectors, the precompensation cylinder,
the landing zone (the cylinder on which you Want to park the heads when
moving the computer), and the total storage capacity in megabytes.
