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From: tjohn@GUMBY.CFSMO.HONEYWELL.COM ("Tony John")
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Subject: Re: 3rd party hard drives for an Apollo
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Date: 14 Jun 91 16:00:38 GMT
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> We have one Apollo 400t (running Domain 10.3) and we need to purchase a
> 1 gigabyte external SCSI hard drive. I want to buy one from a 3rd party
> but I've got some fear and doubt about not buying an HP product. When I
> ask these people if their drives will work with the Apollo, they usually
> reply with "Its a SCSI device, I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't".
> This is not real comforting to me. 
> 
> Does anyone out there have any experience with 3rd party SCSI hard drive?
> Any recommendations?

We've been able to connect 1 gigabyte HP external disk drives from a 3rd 
party vendor (Datalink) to our 400t's with no problems what so ever.  We've
even connected Mac SCSI drives to our 400t's.  I'm pretty sure that you 
want to use a SCSI-1 interface because I don't think that the 400t supports
SCSI-2.

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Tony John                         Honeywell Commercial Flight Systems
612-785-4256                      MN51-1320  8840 Evergreen Blvd.
tjohn@gumby.cfsmo.honeywell.com   Coon Rapids, MN 55433

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened
or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I
cannot remember any but the things that never happened.  It is sad to
go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.
		-- Mark Twain
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