<No offense, Allison, but the 1007 and 1005 controllers won't work with tha <drive at all, as both 1005 and 1007 are ESDI controllers. You may be <thinking of the 1006's which come in both MFM and RLL. The 1006 WITH an <EPROM on it is the RLL version, while the MFM version uses the <motherboard-resident BIOS to handle the HDD. I could be off on the 1007 though I have NO edsi drives and am using 1005 and WD1007 (least that what the markings are) and both are PC using D540s. Also my 1006 was used with them in the current system before I went IDE. Note we may be talking across part numbers as I have three 1005s that are each decidedly different from each other yet, the primary part of the part number is WD1005! I also have 4 flavors of 1002, three differnt lengths, one surface mount! Of all the PC controllers from WDC I have about ten, starting with the 1002 also the 1003, 1005, 1006 and 1007. The only EDSI controller I have is a non WD design and I don't ahve drives for that. <ESDI is a high-level interface not at all like the "ultra-dumb" <ST-506/ST-412 interface this drive claims to have, though it does use cable <of similar configuration, hence has similar connectors. Ah, I do know the difference. <This drive is commonly used with MFM, though its speed control, etc, is <capable of RLL densities as are most "MFM" drives. I've found it to be more successful than others though RD53s (micropolus 1325s 71mb) were really nice at 100mb RLL and pretty reliable till they got old. Allison