Allison J Parent wrote:
 EDSI does not generally use the twist unless that was a PC hack.  The
 Ultrastor EDSI controllers I hav elaying around use the esact cabling
 as a pair of MFM drive on a WD 1003/5/6 controller. 
The ESDI drives I have used on PCs are either set to drive select 0 with no
twist in the cable, or drive select 1 with the twist in the cable.
  The only thing in PCs I know of that use a twist cable
is Floppies. 
That might be true for the early PCs, but almost every PC I have seen uses a
twisted cable for the HD as well as the floppies (and of course the twist is
different for HDs than the floppies.)