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From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nur Iskandar Taib)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: miniscribe hardisk question
Keywords: miniscribe
Message-ID: <1991Mar2.214950.25200@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Date: 2 Mar 91 21:49:50 GMT
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>I was just curious as to the reasons why Miniscribe disks are to be avoided.
>Is there something wrong with their disks, or do they just not have a good 
>high end model.

Well, I really wouldn't know except that I had a 5 1/4" RLL 30 Meg
plated media w/ auto park (I forget the model #) in a Leading Edge
Model D for about two years and had it suddenly fail. A low-level 
format failed to fix it.

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