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Help Needed - Seagate ST07A/ST08A controller card?

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First post, by gryffinwings

Posted on 2023-05-28, 15:00

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So I have a Packard Bell Legend I 286 computer without a hard drive, it came with a Seagate ST07A/ST08A controller card which has an IDE connector. Can I just put in any lower capacity hard drive or does it have to be some kind of seagate drive?

Ideas, feedback are much appreciated, I'm not sure on limitations of this card.

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Main Computer: Custom - Intel 12900K, Asus Nvidia 3080 Ti, 64 GB DDR5.
Retro Computer: Packard Bell Legend I - AMD 286, 640KB RAM
Retro Computer: Shuttle XPC - Pentium 4 2.8 GHz FSB 400 MHz, ATi Radeon 9600 Pro, Sound Blaster Live!, 2GB RAM.

Reply 1 of 3, by konc

Posted on 2023-05-28, 16:38

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No you can use any brand, it's a normal IDE HDD controller. Yours is the ST08A btw, the difference between ST07A and ST08A is the floppy controller.

Reply 2 of 3, by gryffinwings

Posted on 2023-05-28, 17:38

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konc wrote on 2023-05-28, 16:38:

No you can use any brand, it's a normal IDE HDD controller. Yours is the ST08A btw, the difference between ST07A and ST08A is the floppy controller.

That is excellent news, so this should allow me to use a IDE to CF card adapter pretty easily correct?

Reply 3 of 3, by konc

Posted on 2023-05-29, 08:35

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Correct it should be straightforward. The controller isn't supposed to have any difference from any other IDE controller out there, in theory of course.

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