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Subject: "other" disks on Masscomps
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Date: Thu, 19-Nov-87 16:43:46 EST
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We are considering alternate sources of SMD-type disks to use
on our recently acquired MC-5550s. The new CDC drives look
very appealing. We currently have a couple on demo from a local
vendor and are experimenting with them on our Sun-3s. 

I would be interested to hear of anyone else's experience.

		Thanks in advance,
		(will post summary)


	Dale Chayes
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are we having fun yet?....

[Unless things have changed drastically, using unsupported disks is a bad idea.
The drivers tend to be "tuned" to each disk supported. It is fairly easy to get
the same model disk from the manufacturer or from a middleman at a somewhat
lower cost than masscomp. -- sob]