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From: neese@adaptex.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SCSI Drives on a Novell network
Message-ID: <25100005@adaptex>
Date: 21 Mar 90 15:32:00 GMT
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Nf-From: adaptex.UUCP!neese    Mar 21 09:32:00 1990


>The company I work for is installing a Novell Network.  They purchased
>a 33 MHz Northgate 386 with two 300 MB CDC SCSI disk drives.  The problem
>is the company that will install the network for us does not wish to use
>the CDC drives, claiming that they aren't Novell certified, and they want
>to sell us their drives (drives they sell, not produce).
>
>My questions are:
>    1)  Has anyone used CDC drives or had any experience with them and if so
>        what is your opinion of them?
>    2)  If you have solid reasoning for your opinion, is there a specific
>        manufacture of drive that we should be using on our network?
>    3)  Do you have any other comments regarding Novell networks, Northgate
>        computers as file servers, or SCSI hard disks?

Wow, this is really neat.  CDC drives are considered to be the best SCSI
drvies in the industry.  For reliability and performance, they cannot be
beat.  I have used many drives, from many manufacturers, and CDC has been
consistently the best overall.  Who cares if Novell has certified them or
not.  I know many people, including many of my customers, who use them
in Novell servers.  Bottom line: You can't go wrong using CDC drives in any
environment.

			Roy Neese
			Adaptec Central Field Applications Engineer
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