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From: mdapoz@hybrid.UUCP (Mark Dapoz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,u3b.tech
Subject: Re: 3b2 disk limit
Keywords: 3b2 hard disk idtools
Message-ID: <1990May5.211912.2623@hybrid.UUCP>
Date: 5 May 90 21:19:12 GMT
References: <1990May2.142538.4822@nebulus.UUCP> <1990May4.005702.1187@robohack.UUCP> <1990May4.154009.10562@nebulus.UUCP>
Organization: The Home for Unemployed Basselopes, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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In article <1990May4.154009.10562@nebulus.UUCP> dennis@nebulus.UUCP (Dennis S. Breckenridge) writes:
>>I currently have 2 Maxtor-1140's installed, as 15h x 1024c x 18s x 512b.
>>(Most 1140's will format out to 1024 cylinders, though they are only
>>supposed to go to 918.  Some only go to 900.)
>
>What the question to Greg is: How many times has robohack been down
>on a Maxtor disk fault? I ping his machine (via uucp) just to get
>a laugh every now and then. :-)

I have two 1140's on my 3B1 and I've formatted them to 1024 cylinders and 
they've been running fine for over 4 months now.  One of them (the spool
drive) usually sees about 10 meg per day of activity (some of it the
backlog to robohack :-).
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