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From: woody@pawl.rpi.edu (Chris A. Widmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SCSI disks?
Message-ID: <1989Oct26.200142.16347@rpi.edu>
Date: 26 Oct 89 20:01:42 GMT
References: <8910260831.AA29247@euler.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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In <8910260831.AA29247@euler.Berkeley.EDU> ndeng@EULER.BERKELEY.EDU writes:
>I read an ad in Micro Times, made by "Computer Surplus Store" (715 Sycamore Drive, Miltipas, CA) for som large SCSI disks. The ad reads
>
>NEW 1/2H 5 1/4" CAST DRIVES
>
>14406S 170MB SCSI      $700
>14405S 140MB SCSI      $575
>
>I thought the price is too cheap for a "new" drive. Did anybody have any
>experience with this store or with this kind of drives? What is the seek time?
>Are the drives, and, the shop, reliable? 

  I just bought one of their New CAST 87meg ESDI drives for $375 and it 
 seems to be refurbished. It works perfectly so far and I am rather pleased.
 The only problem is there are no docs on switch settings and no termination
 resistor came with the drive. The drive is actually a 75 meg, but I knew that 
 beforehand from Western Digital's complete drive listing. 

   Those 2 SCSI's you mentioned are both 25msec by the way.

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