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From: casey@admin.cognet.ucla.edu (Casey Leedom)
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Subject: Re:  Can you swap drive electronics packages?
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Date: 14 Oct 88 15:51:50 GMT
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| From: hollaar@cs.utah.edu (Lee Hollaar)
| 
| Generally, the manufacturers of the small winchester drives view them as
| a complete unit, without field-replaceable parts.  Warranty service, or
| having them fixed by the manufacturer, consists of returning the complete
| unit.  They really aren't set up to handle board fixes in the field, or
| at least don't like to do it.

  Oh, and so why is it so easy to swap the drive electronics package?
All that was required to do it was take out two screws, unconnect a
couple of cables, and then slip the new PCB in.  It seems to me that the
drive manufacturer (Micropolis in this case) has gone to great pains to
house a modular component on a replaceable platform.  It sounds more to
me like Apollo and other companies just aren't taking advantage of that.

Casey

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