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From: grege@gold.GVG.TEK.COM (Greg Ebert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Conner 3.5" Drives
Message-ID: <1417@gold.GVG.TEK.COM>
Date: 7 Sep 90 16:25:41 GMT
References: <ABRAMS.90Sep6175804@cs.cs.columbia.edu#
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In article <ABRAMS.90Sep6175804@cs.cs.columbia.edu#  abrams@cs.columbia.edu (Steven Abrams) writes:
# 
# There seems to be a lot of companies selling Conner drives, really
# cheaply, and I can get a 3.5" 104 MB IDE drive *with* an IDE
# controller for $550.00 == this seems like an amazing price.
# 
#  [...]
# 
# Has anyone heard ANYTHING about these drives, good, bad, or
# indifferent.
# 

I'll vouch for them. I abused one at AST. Hundereds of power-up/downs, 
voltages from 4.0 to 5.75, unplugging power or signal connectors at
different times, shaking them, knocking them over, torching with a heat
gun... AND IT WOULDN'T DIE ! Never lost anything, not even my prized copy
of Blockout [and you thought tetris was fun...]. These drives hold an
astonishing amount of data for their size, and are pretty fast.

And, you *can* low-level format these drives....