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From: kg@elan.UUCP (Ken Greer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Problems with Miniscribe 338Mb ESDI drive ?
Message-ID: <504@elan.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 89 20:01:42 GMT
References: <466@rna.UUCP>
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Organization: Elan Computer Group, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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From article <466@rna.UUCP>, by dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o):
> 
> 	I'm about to buy a 300+Mb drive for 386 PC. CompuAdd has the good
> price of $1700 for the Miniscribe 338Mb. However I've heard that this drive
> is unreliable. Any other reports or experiences or recommendations on
> similar drives that are reliable ?

We've had good success with the Maxtor XT4380E disk drive.
We have four of them.  Make sure it's the XT with E suffix.
An older model of the same drive numbered EXT4380 should be avoided!
We had one and it was very flakey!!  The XT4380E is the new one
which is fine.