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From: esd@liebert.uucp (Eric Scott Deese)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: Which SCSI disk and tape drives for Xenix/UNIX
Message-ID: <1990Jun06.211604.23405@liebert.uucp>
Date: 6 Jun 90 21:16:04 GMT
References: <1990Jun5.113359.26250@dircon.uucp> <1990Jun6.151714.330@pegasus.com>
Reply-To: esd@liebert.UUCP (Eric Scott Deese)
Organization: Liebert Corp., Columbus, Ohio
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In article <1990Jun6.151714.330@pegasus.com> richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
>>The alternatives we are looking at, are: Micropolis 1684 ...
>
>I've heard complaints from a number of people about Micropolis and
>excessive numbers of bad-blocks.

We use several of the Micropolis 1558 (338 MB full-height) and
1568 (772 MB full-height) drives in IBM PS/2s and HP Vectras.
We haven't had any trouble from the Micropolis drives.  I just
wish would could say the same thing about the IBM drives.

Eric Deese (osu-cis!liebert!esd)