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From: keithe@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Miniscribe 3053's
Message-ID: <3887@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM>
Date: 1 Sep 88 00:46:04 GMT
References: <13648@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <8549@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <8549@cup.portal.com> Sorceress@cup.portal.com writes:
>I have had a Miniscribe 6053 for 10 months now. At first, I too was worried
>about the noise they make, but you get used to it. It certainly does not seem
>to affect the performance of the device.

This note is in regard to the Miniscribe 3053 product line, a
half-height, 42 Megabyte capcacity drive:

Within the last year I supervised the construction of nine (9) 386AT
systems into which Miniscribe 3053's were installed. One was DOA
(dead on arrival); since then two (2) more have been sent back for
repair (and yet to be returned); another one is in my office now to
be returned for repair; and another (the fifth) is regularly generating
"bad block" messages, even after backup/re-format/restore remedial
actions, and I expect it to "crash" before too long.

I will not permit the purchase of any more Miniscribe 3053 fixed
disk drives in my department based upon this reliability (huh?)
performance. They were chosen over other products primarily for
access speed. But "stopped" is a heck of a lot slower than "slow."

keith
(I work for Tektronix; they don't know what I do, I don't know what
they do. They don't know what they do!)
(The above disclaimer is hereby disclaimed)
(Me too.)