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From: jackv@turnkey.TCC.COM (Jack F. Vogel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Perstor Disk Drive Controllers
Keywords: disk drive controllers,experiences requested,how?
Message-ID: <6732@turnkey.TCC.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 90 11:50:21 GMT
References: <868@edstip.EDS.COM> <24@psmsd.UUCP>
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Organization: Turnkey Computer Consultants, Westchester, CA
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In article <24@psmsd.UUCP> pmartin@psmsd.UUCP (Paul Martin) writes:

>The perstor will cause your drive to get hotter than normal thus causing
>a failure.  This is because the drive spins faster under the perstor.

Huh??? You been smoking that Perstor literature or something :-}? A controller
has nothing to do with the rate at which a drive spins!! That is a factor of
the damn motor in the disk drive. The only reason I can see that a controller
would cause the drive to be hot is how much work it gives the heads.

Disclaimer: I speak for me not for LCC or IBM

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Jack F. Vogel			jackv@seas.ucla.edu
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