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From: grr@cbmvax.cbm.UUCP (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: net.unix
Subject: Re: Are these the disks for me?
Message-ID: <189@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-May-86 11:23:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.189
Posted: Mon May  5 11:23:15 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 8-May-86 06:55:35 EDT
References: <411@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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In article <411@brl-smoke.ARPA> dms@mit-hermes.arpa writes:

>The 3.0 MB/S CDC drive has the same MTBF as the eagle and eagle II. In
>addition, its seek time it 16 ms average, compared with 18 ms for the
>eagle. All in all, it seems like a better drive than the eagle II.

I suggest you talk to some of the people who do third-party drive repair
and refurbishment.  My understanding is that CDC has a pretty mixed
reputation and are now screwing themselves in the area of replacement
parts availability and cost.  Of course, you can always send your drive
back to CDC for repairs :-)...

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