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From: ilan343@violet.berkeley.edu (Geraldo Veiga)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Experiences with 100MB disks
Keywords: Hard disk, 100MB, IDE
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Date: 21 Dec 90 06:30:46 GMT
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In article <1990Dec20.184703.28077@nas.nasa.gov> lohia@sun226.nas.nasa.gov (Shri Lohia) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I am the market to buy a Hard Disk around 100MB preferably  with IDE
>Interface. I would like to hear for you all the suggestions, experiences,
>pitfalls. I am going to run UNIX  on 386/33 Cache , so I prefer it to be
>very fast.
>
>I would like to  know the reliability, ruggedness  before making a decision.

If your going to run UNIX you also want it bigger. I would seriously
consider going up to 200M. This way you'll be able to set up a DOS
partition in your disk and still have confortable space left in the
UNIX side.  I did set up a system recently with a Maxtor LX210 IDE
running ISC UNIX.  This is a very fast drive for its class, its transfer
rate under CORETS was 970KB/sec which is comparable to some ESDI
combos.  For a little lower cost (I've seen it advertized for $777)
there is the Conner CP3204 - I don't have first-hand experience with
this one, but heard good reviews from people running several flavors of
UNIX/386.