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From: mangler@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (System Mangler)
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Subject: CDC 3-year warranty believable?
Message-ID: <1306@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: Sun, 7-Dec-86 09:47:16 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  7 09:47:16 1986
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In article <4647@mimsy.UUCP>, chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
> because our source machine is down with broken CDC 9771 drives.)

More than one broken?  Lately, this sounds typical of CDC drives
in general.  All four of our 9715's crashed in less than a year...
So when the Emulex salesman was trying to sell us some CDC 9772's,
I took particular note of the CDC 3-year HDA warranty.

Given their record, does this mean that 9772's are reliable, or
does it mean that CDC will replace the HDA lots and lots of times
for free?  Do the replacement HDA's carry the same warranty?

I read in one of the DEC-watcher rags that CDC just introduced an
even bigger drive, 1.3 gigabytes.  No Emulex controller yet, so I
assume that means that the transfer rate went up.  (Why can't the
controller makers keep up with the drives?!?).	Is it worth a look?

Don Speck   speck@vlsi.caltech.edu  {seismo,rutgers,ames}!cit-vax!speck