Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!reed!percival!qiclab!catlabs!neighorn
From: neighorn@catlabs.UUCP (Steven C. Neighorn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Bernoulli Box Question
Message-ID: <520@catlabs.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 88 16:38:46 GMT
References: <5013@ecsvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: neighorn@catlabs.UUCP (Steven C. Neighorn)
Organization: SCN Research, Portland Oregon
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In article <5013@ecsvax.UUCP> burgin@ecsvax.UUCP (Robert Burgin) writes:
>
>Has anyone used a Bernoulli box with an AT or AT-level machine?
>With what results?  Any problems?
>
>I get mixed signals through the grapevine - some say the Bernoulli
>box is troublesome; some say it's trouble free.

My experience falls with the trouble-free camp. We have 10 machines (some
PC/XT's, PC/AT's, and Tandy 4000's) with both external 8" drives, and
internal and external 5.25" drives. We also have about a dozen more out
in the field, all with the internal 5.25" unit. Our luck with Bernoulli
has been very good. They are a little slower than rigid hard drives, and
the formatting software for some reason requires deleting our Ethernet
drivers from the config.sys file while it is operating, but other than that,
no major problems whatsoever. New b-box owners should be warned that the
'thunk' sound the drives make when deactivating is normal, and their 
machine has not been possessed.

We use the cartridges for moving software systems around, for back-up
purposes, and for updating our Computer Adaptive Testing sites with
the latest version. I highly recommend them, but shop around, as prices
seem to vary by quite a few deviations between dealers.


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