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From: rreiner@yunexus.YorkU.CA (Richard Reiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Prairie 120 hard disk
Message-ID: <21828@yunexus.YorkU.CA>
Date: 6 Mar 91 23:22:41 GMT
Organization: York U. Computing Services
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A clone-brand laptop I'm considering buying has a Prairie 120 2" hard
disk.  This worries me a bit, as I've never heard of Prairie, and the
disk specs, as published in the machine's spec sheet and confirmed
with Coretest, are very unusual: 23 ms average seek (rather quick,
especially for a laptop of this class, namely el-cheapo), but 85
Kb/sec data transfer rate (very very slow).

So: does anybody know anythng about Prairie, and more particularly
about this disk?

Thanks,

--richard