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From: 880274d@aucs.uucp (Ralph Doncaster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: How good is new Fujitsu 136M SCSI Drive?
Keywords: Hard Disk SCSI Fujitsu
Message-ID: <1990Jan13.073531.14354@aucs.uucp>
Date: 13 Jan 90 07:35:31 GMT
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apdonsig@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Allan Donsig) writes:

>There is a new SCSI drive out from Fujitsu.... 

>	136 MB, SCSI I, 25 ms, 3 1/2", 1 1/2" thin
>	$1499 CDN  (~1100 US) 

>Does anyone have any warnings for me about this combination,
>or an alternate suggestion for a 100-150 Meg drive?  I'd like

I've heard good things about the drives.  They have a 3yr warranty (at least
in Canada), and have a look-ahead cache buffer making them generally faster
than 25ms (similar to Quantum drives).
I haven't heard anything about problems using them, and the distributor I spoke
to said they've seen the drives on Amigas (didn't say with which controller)
I'd also suggest you'd be paying too much at $1499 CDN.  The wholesale price I
was quoted for the drive (# M2613S) was under $1100 CDN, and the M2614S (180 MB
) was only about $150 more.

As far as compatability is concerned, all I know is that the distributor I spoke
to said the drives have been used with Amigas, but I didn't ask with which  
controller.

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