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Subject: Re: Reliability of Priam Hard Drives
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Date: 31 Aug 89 17:00:02 GMT
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Organization: Engineering, Michigan State U., E. Lansing MI
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> From article <447@holston.UUCP>, by barton@holston.UUCP (barton):
>> I am considering the purchase of a large Priam hard disk.
>> I am interested in responses concerning the reliability and
>> ease of installation of same under SCO Xenix in particular.

One thing to watch for it the number of cylinders on the drive. Xenix
only sees up to 1024 cylinders. I use a Priam 519 (a 150MB drive) at
work and a Priam 514 (a 120MB drive) at home. Both of these have
something like 1224 cylinders so I can't use the entire drive for Xenix.
(If there is a work around for this, someone please e-mail the solution)

This doesn't really handicap me as I set up a 32MB DOS partition at the
end of drive and boot off floppy for DOS. I can then see that area using
the HARDRIVE.SYS driver that comes with SpeedStor.

Overall these seem to be good drives, but they don't have the
performance of a SCSI drive.....

I'd suggest you price SCSI or ESDI drives and compare performance/$
between the two.

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