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- From: brian@umbc4.umbc.edu (Brian Cuthie)
- Subject: Re: New Toshiba 800MB drive?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.181635.18148@umbc3.umbc.edu>
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- Organization: University of Maryland Baltimore Campus
- References: <3194@creatures.cs.vt.edu>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 18:16:35 GMT
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- In article <3194@creatures.cs.vt.edu> alanlb@cs.vt.edu writes:
- >Hi there! I'm about to blow a considerable chunk of my hard-earned
- >money on a larger hard disk. My current plan is to go for a Fujitsu
- >2624SA. However, it seems that there is a new 800MB Toshiba drive
- >in the market (e.g. APS sells an external for $1499). Has anybody had
- >any experience using it with a NeXTstation? For that matter,
- >has anybody had any experience with Toshiba drives in general?
- >
- >Thanks!
- >
- >-alan
-
-
- I had one of these drives for a few days. It didn't seem to work with the
- NeXTstation on my desk right out of the box. I could low level format it,
- but when I tried to build a file system on it, it would die with a write
- error very early in the process.
-
- I'm sure, given a spec sheet with the jumper settins (which I didn't have),
- that the drive can be made to work with the NeXT. My chief complaint is that
- the drive is *real* noisy. To be blunt, it squeels like a pig.
-
- Bottom line: run away.
-
- -Brian
-
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- Brian Cuthie
- Systemix Software, Inc.
- brian@systemix.com
-