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From: adh@anumb.UUCP (a.d.hay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Looking for info on 3b2
Message-ID: <340@anumb.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 88 12:41:05 GMT
References: <36445@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> <301@amyerg.UUCP>
Reply-To: adh@anumb.UUCP (a.d.hay)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - MV
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In article <301@amyerg.UUCP> egranthm@amyerg.UUCP (Ewan Grantham) writes:
:^<
:^< Was wondering if anyone could point me toward some cheap hard disks
:^< for a 3B2/300. I've been told by my VAR that a 72 meg replacement
:^< for my 30 meg drive would cost $1500, while I see drives in the 
:^< magazines with the ESDI interface for 150 megs at this price. Any
:^< way to get a 60 or 70 meg ESDI drive to replace my internal one for
:^< about $600-$700?

ANY ST412/506 drive will plug 'n play, if you can figure out how to
format it (yes, even the 190Mb ones ;^>).  CDC makes the OEM drives.

for an ESDI drive, you'll have to get the SCSI card from your VAR,
then a SCSI-to-ESDI interface thingamjig...

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