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From: andrew@alice.UUCP (Andrew Hume)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: Disks for M/120
Summary: what we do
Message-ID: <10060@alice.UUCP>
Date: 27 Oct 89 14:19:28 GMT
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In article <2171@hudson.acc.virginia.edu>, wrp@biochsn.acc.Virginia.EDU (William R. Pearson) writes:
> 
> 	I am interested in third-party sources for disks for a MIPS M/120
> system.  I would like to purchase a ~600 Mbyte drive in a shoebox with
> a cable.  I would prefer to buy from someone who knows what a MIPS computer
> is.
> 
> Bill Pearson


we have used WREN V's bought directly from Imprimis
(our cost was <<$2,000 but yours shouldn't be much higher).
For power supplys, we got a PC-box from Digital Electronics
(in the back of Byte magazine) that holds two drives for $149.
make sure you say two wren drives as they have high current requirements.
i just got some WREN VI's; it worked stratightaway after being plugged
in on our MIPS machine. The advantages of a WREN VI are
	1) the mips disktab is nearly right for them (the wren v entry
		is for some small wren v of about 330MB, ours where
		the 702MB ones).
	2) they are bigger than wren v's by about 60MB
	3) they have a faster seek time
	4) cost only a tad more ($75 for us).
	5) have a delivery time of about 3-4 weeks, not the 1 year
		that wren v's have.