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From: cwd@cuae2.UUCP (Chris Donahue)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att
Subject: Re: Bigger 3B2 disks
Message-ID: <1758@cuae2.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 23-Jan-86 15:55:19 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 23 15:55:19 1986
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Summary: 

Hate to stop the party, but ... Absolute Computers is bankrupt an out of
business. They have formed a new company called Absolute Technologies.
They never offered a 240MB disk. They offered a total system capability
of 240MB (they added 3 70MB drives but violated many 3B2 standards in
doing this). Beware of the MAXTOR 140MB-190MB disk. It had/has a problem
recalibrating in the 3B2. Driver, firmware, and diagnostic changes were
required to use it. MAXTOR allegedly has fixed the problem. I am not sure.
Putting non-standard disks in your 3B2 can void your service contract.
You will have to negotiate if you want to do this (or hope no-one notices
the funny drive in your machine). Also, how do you intend to format
your new drive?

Chris Donahue
AT&T Info. Sys.
Application Engineering