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From: woan@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Ronald S. Woan)
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Subject: Hard Disks
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Date: Fri, 6-Nov-87 11:50:44 EST
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Summary: What's good?


Thanks for all the netland responses to the query for low-level formatting
programs. I ended up using a package called HDDIAG which I believe to
be a shareware product (not sure, no docs), and my hard disk runs ok now
(sort of, fail ECC test ?). Lo and behold, almost two meg. in bad sectors.


Well now that it is time to get a new hard disk drive, does anyone have
suggestions on which of the growing number of available models to purchase.
Here are the basic guidelines:

	1. under 30ms access time
	2. under $700 (mail order)
	3. does not need specialized controller
	4. 30+ meg.

From the trade news that I have seen, I am leaning towards a 40 meg Miniscribe
model. Any Comments.


						Ron
						woan@cory.berkeley.edu