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From: davidb@inmos.co.uk (David Boreham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Disk Drives
Message-ID: <2588@ganymede.inmos.co.uk>
Date: 18 Oct 89 14:31:47 GMT
Reply-To: davidb@inmos.co.uk (David Boreham)
Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK.
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The recent postings on Apollo/3Com Ethernet boards set me thinking
about disk drives. What I'd like to know is can you buy bare Maxtor
disk drives an upgrade DN3550's with WD7000 controllers to 760Mb ?

I know that the 348Mb drives are Maxtor XT4380E, are the 760Mb
drives Maxtor XT8760E ? Also are they standard drives like you
can buy from bare drive suppliers ?

As a supplementary question, does anyone know if the SMS
controller cards are available from anyone but apollo ?

(The reason for all this is that bare drives cost less than 
half the apollo upgrade price).

Could everyone mail replies and I'll summerise to the net.
Thanks.

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