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From: calloway@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Frank Calloway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: miniscribe hardisk question
Message-ID: <12070003@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Mar 91 16:37:05 GMT
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I've owned two Miniscribe drives.  The first was an older, full-height
40 MByte model that continues to work great (4+ years).  The second
was a newer, half-height 71 MByte (3085) model that gave me so many
intermittent problems that I recently replaced it with a Toshiba IDE
drive.

Hard Drives International, which is where I bought both drives, says
they dropped Miniscribe because of all the problems.  And a survey in
PC Magazine rated Miniscribe's reliability as questionable.

I'd suggest you look elsewhere.

Frank Calloway