Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pdn!boake2!jc3b21!rac
From: rac@jc3b21.UUCP (Roger A. Cornelius)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Shugart 712 hard drive
Message-ID: <502@jc3b21.UUCP>
Date: 17 Nov 88 23:57:53 GMT
References: <506@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Organization: St. Petersburg Jr. College, FL
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From article <506@mitisft.Convergent.COM>, by burton@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Philip Burton):
> In article <12585@steinmetz.ge.com>, davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) writes:
>> In article <496@jc3b21.UUCP> rac@jc3b21.UUCP (Roger A. Cornelius) writes:
>> 
> Well, as an ex-Shugart employee, I've got to set the record straight.
> 
> The way that the disk drive market moves, by now all of Shugart's products are
> obsolescent in the market.  Except for the 1/2 high 5 1/4 drives, actually
> made by Matsushita (Panasonic), there is no good reason to use a Shugart product.

	Unless of course you already have one, which my friend does.

> In particular, I would not use a Shugart 712.  It was probably a 10 or 12 MB 
> drive formatted, and never got widespread attention.  Much better to use an
> equivalent Seagate drive, if cost is an issue.  I doubt that you could get
> spare parts for the Shugart drive, let alone manuals.

From the replies I received (Thanks, I replied back), it is a 10 MB
drive.  If you'd be willing to swap this Shugart out for a comparable
sized or larger Seagate, free of charge, I'm sure I could convince
him to agree.  He'd probably even settle for one without the manuals. :-)

Roger Cornelius       uunet!pdn!jc3b21!sherpa!rac