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- From: phred@well.sf.ca.us (Fred Heutte)
- Subject: Re: Comments On Micropolis 2112?
- Message-ID: <phred.725355978@well.sf.ca.us>
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- References: <1giurhINN4hq@smurf.sti.com> <1992Dec14.232813.8572@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 07:46:18 GMT
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- In <1992Dec14.232813.8572@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> tt@thor.acc.Virginia.EDU (Tang Tang) writes:
-
- > Has anyone hear any problem with the new 3-1/2" drive from Micropolis?
- >I had 3 disk related crashes on a Netware 3.11 server in the last 2 weeks
- >after adding this new drive. My setup is a 486/33, 64meg memory, Adaptec
- >1542B controller, a Seagate 5-1/4" 1gig and this new Micropolois drive.
-
- >Thanks in advance,
- >Tang
-
- I've just installed a Micropolis 2112 for a client. We found it would not
- run with the Future Domain 1660 adapter -- FD says that is because of some
- sort of incompatibility or disagreement among drive and controllers
- manufacturers about the specs for 1+ GB drives, which is supposed to be
- fixed 1Q93 with a new release of the FD firmware.
-
- We were able to get the disk formatted properly under DOS and to write
- smaller files, but it choked on anything > 100K. Very annoying.
-
- However, we put the old Adaptec 1542 board formerly used in the system
- back in and it works fine with the 2112 so far. Throughput measured
- at > 3 MB/sec on large file transfers, which is fine by me. I will be
- happier when we can run it on a fully-performing SCSI2 bus, of course ;-)
-
- I give high marks to Future Domain and Andataco (which supplied the drive);
- their tech support was very helpful.
-
- The 2112 seems like a very nice drive, but be careful of internal
- installations -- it runs fairly hot (at 5400 rpm, who wouldn't ;-).
- Haven't done strenuous testing but access seems right around 11-12 ms
- which is the main reason I got this one instead of an HP.
-