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From: emmo@moncam.co.uk (Dave Emmerson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Seagates under Unix???  (or best pick)
Message-ID: <369@marvin.moncam.co.uk>
Date: 18 Jan 90 13:42:52 GMT
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In article <40970029@hpindda.HP.COM>, kmont@hpindda.HP.COM (Kevin Montgomery) writes:
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> 
> 	So, has anyone used the Connor drives?  They're apparently used
> bigtime in Compaq computers, but I don't hear much about them through dealer
> channels.

We used them for a while, a year or two ago, I forget the model number,
it would have been around 80-100 Mbytes. We only switched to CDC Wren
drives (and later to Quantum Pro drives), on the basis of the OEM
pricing deals we were able to get, not the in-system performance. In
our (custom) system there was little to choose between them, all were
maintaining around 2.5Mbyte/sec average. I didn't see many of the Connors,
so I can't compare them for reliability on a fair basis.
We tried a few others, which I won't name, they were noticably slower
than the above trio. You'll certainly appreciate the speed of those
SCSI drives, I think they all had decent on-board caches.
BTW, my favourite dealer told me that the WD1007 card was incompatible
with the Quantum PRO80S, the only such instance I have ever heard of. I
can only say they appeared incompatible to me too.
Personally I would have been happy with any of the 3 in my AT, I got
the best deal on the Quantum.

ATB,

Dave E.