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From: scott@cs.hw.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Anyone heard of a Microscience 8040 IDE hard disk?
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Date: 7 Mar 91 19:49:35 GMT
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Reply-To: scott@cs.hw.ac.uk (Scott Telford)
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, UK.
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I've just got my 386SX clone back after returning it under warranty
because of a faulty hard disk (43Mb NEC IDE-type). It's been replaced
by a 40Mb Microscience International 8040 IDE disk, made in Singapore.
I can't say I've heard of Microscience before. Does anybody know
anything about their drives or got any comments (good/bad)? The only
notable things I've found out so far is that it's 1/3-height and the
head motor's pretty quiet. I'd particularly like to find out what it's
average seek time is; I just might be able to live with the 3Mb less if
it's faster than the 25ms NEC :-)


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| Scott Telford, Dept of Computer Science,               scott@cs.hw.ac.uk    |
| Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.                 scott%hwcs@ukc.uucp  |
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