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From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Large Capacity Disk Drives for Suns/Vaxen?
Message-ID: <1467@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 26-Feb-87 04:57:17 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.1467
Posted: Thu Feb 26 04:57:17 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Feb-87 04:23:51 EST
References: <4326@utah-cs.UUCP> <493@savax.UUCP> <17519@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
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Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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Keywords: Disk Failures

In article <17519@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> sklower@renoir.Berkeley.EDU (Keith Sklower) writes:
>
>Some possible drives that have come to our attention are the NEC 2352 and
>2362 disk drives (at 520 and 800MB), which are 9" winchesters.  Toshiba
>has recently introduced a 510MB 8" winchester.  The local distributor for
>NEC claims that out of 2000 NEC drives shipped over the last two years,
>only one has come back; and it was obviously dropped in shipment.  Further,
>the claim was made that returned drive functioned properly after having
>its boards were reseated.

Well as the super-eagle fiasco proves, one model is not the same as another,
but I personally am greatly impressed with the NEC 8" drives.  I found two
168MB NEC drives, somewhat beat up, at a local electronics scrap place.  I
got them cheap in hopes that at least one would work, and was amazed that
both formated with *NO* bad sectors.  They've been working nicely ever since...
-- 
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