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From: acarlson@hardy.math.umass.edu (Adam Carlson)
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Subject: CDC Wren IV = Seagate 4376N
Summary: Want to confirm disk drive compatibility
Keywords: disk SunOS seagate wren CDC
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Date: 9 Apr 91 17:02:29 GMT
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I have a Sun 3/80 running SunOS 4.1 for which I would like to buy a
~300M hard drive.  I am totally unknowing in the area of hard drive
trivia.  I would like to know 1) if the CDC Wren IV (94171) drive and
the Seagate 4376N are EXACTLY the same.  In other words.  If I buy a
Seagate (now that they have bought out Wren) can I install it with no
extra work (like adding format.dat entries). and 2) is that a good
choice for a drive of this size.

Any information would be appreciated.

*Note: to those of you who requested that I forward responses to my
last posting of a networking question, requests of this sort currently
outnumber actual responses 3 to 1.  If I don't get anything else soon,
I will send you the response I got.

Thanks
-- 
Adam Carlson                  | It's good to know that if I behave
acarlson@math.umass.edu       | strangely enough, society will take
Statistical Consulting Center | full responsibility for me.
UMass @ Amherst               | - Ashleigh Brilliant