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IBM OEM Storage Product Integration Information
DCAA-34330 & DCAA-33610 IDE Hard Drives

Dell DX266 DX2-66
COMPATIBILITY Dell GXL 5166 P5-166
Dell P6-200 P6-200
Combinations of System BIOS, Interface Dell Optiplex Gyro P6-180
Adapters, Operating Systems, and Device Epson AT6500 P5-166
Drivers, can affect the ability of storage devices Gateway 2000 P5-133
to function correctly. To minimise potential Gateway 2000 P5-200
problems of this kind IBM has verified Gateway 2000 P6-200
connection and successful operation of this Midwest Micro Elite P5-90
product with a range of Systems, Adapters and Packard Bell Legend 836CDT P5-100
Operating Systems. These are listed below. SNI Primergy 550 P5-133

Systems and System Boards System Board Chipsets

System boards ALI M151x
Acer AP 53 P5-166 OPTI 82C556, 82C557, 82C558
Anco PT5 PCI P5-133 SiS 85C503, 85C501, 85C502
Asus P/I-P55T2P4 P5-166 (Winbond W83769F IDE)
Asus P/I-P6NP5 P6-200 SiS 551X
Asus SP3AV P5-133 Intel 430FX/82371FB
DFI G5860PA P5-120 Intel 430HX/82371SB
FIC PA-2005 P5-166 Intel 440FX/82371SB
Gigabyte GA586ATM P5-166 Intel 430NX
Intel Atlantis P5-133 Intel 430TX/82371AB
Intel Marl P6-166 (Tested at 3.3V)
Micronics M54Hi PCI P5-166 VIA Apollo 580VP
Micronics M54Hi Plus P5-166
Microstar S12 P5-90 The DCAA-3XXXX drive has also been tested
with DMA drivers for these chipsets where
Systems available at the time of testing.
Acer Power 450dvp P5-100
Apple Performa 6400/180
AST Bravo P6-150
AST Premmia GX P5-133
Compaq Deskpro 5166 P5-166
Compaq P6-150

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DCAA-34330 & DCAA-33610 IDE Hard Drives

System Board BIOS
SCO Open Desktop v3.0
SCO Open Server v5.0
See Drive Capacity issues. Windows NT Workstation v3.51
Windows NT Workstation v4.0
AMI A778 052695 (10/10/94) Windows for Work Groups v3.11
AMI A03 Windows 95
AMI 1.00.01.CH0
AMI 1.00.03.CI0
AMI 1.00.03.DB0 Master / Slave Operation
AMI 100.04.CL0 (11/21/95)
AMI 1.00.04.CS1T The drive family has been integrated in both
AMI 1.00.05.BR0T Master and Slave modes with the following
AMI 1.00.06.CY1T hard drives:
AMI 1.00.06.CG0
AMI 1.00.12.BB0R Quantum Scirocco
AMI DMI v2.0 (24/8/95) Seagate ST566A
AST 3.01 Western Digital Caviar 32500
Award v4.50G
Award v4.50 PG (5/16/95) ATAPI CD-ROMS
Award v4.50 PG (8/18/95)
Award v4.50 PG (4/5/96)
Award v4.51 PG (5/17/96) Aztech CDA 668-011
Award v4.52 PG (7/17/96) Aztech CDA 468-021
Compaq (11/29/95) Imes
Phoenix 1.10A00 Momitsu CDM-H082
Phoenix v4.04 rev 1.02.873 (2/19/96)*2 Mitsumi CRMC FX001 IDE
Phoenix v4.04 M54Hi-06P (12/19/95)*2 Samsung CD-Master 8E SCR-830
Phoenix v4.05 *2 Teac CD-56EK
Phoenix Plus v1.10A17 Vuego 66 51 004 (Acer)
Toshiba XM5602B
Wearnes CD0820
Operating Systems

MS DOS v6.22 & v6.0
PC DOS v7.0
Novell Netware v4.1
OS/2 v3.0 (WARP) *3


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DCAA-34330 & DCAA-33610 IDE Hard Drives

Drive Capacity

Ontrack Disk Manager v7.09 utility software
has been successfully used to allow full drive
capacity in systems that will not support drives
of this capacity.

*1 Some BIOS's have a 4.22 GB Capacity
limitation for EIDE drives. See Hints and
Tips document for DCAA-3XXXX.
*2 There are known problems when
DCAA-34330 & DCAA-33610 drives are
integrated into machines with Phoenix
v4.0x BIOS. See Hints and Tips document
for DCAA-3XXXX drives.
*3 There are known limitations when OS/2
Warp v3.0 is installed onto the
DCAA-34330 drive. The problems are
detailed in the Hints and Tips document for
DCAA-3XXXX drives.




All trademarks are acknowledged. This
information is provided for the use of OEM
Manufacturers attaching IBM disk drives
and is believed to be accurate, but is
supplied without guarantee.


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