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- From: guy@cbnewsc.cb.att.com (guy.r.berentsen)
- Subject: Re: Help needed to bring life back to my old UNIX PC
- Organization: AT&T
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:14:20 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.001420.16065@cbnewsc.cb.att.com>
- Summary: My favorite Disk for unix pc
- References: <1jrjreINNc4o@kirov.intercon.no> <1993Jan24.055312.9796@d-and-d.com>
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- In article <1993Jan24.055312.9796@d-and-d.com>, dnichols@d-and-d.com (DoN. Nichols) writes:
- > In article <1jrjreINNc4o@kirov.intercon.no> aras@intercon.no (Arne Asplem) writes:
- > >I need some help to bring life back to my old UNIX PC. The 20 Meg.
- > >harddisk crashed totally some time ago, and obviously the computer hasn't
- > >been used since. I need some information about which harddisks (controller
- > >type, size, etc.) are supported ? Preferably something larger that 20
- > >Meg. (in the range 60-100).
- >
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- > First, my suggestion for the best drive to put in a 7300, which is what I
- > presume you to have, since you are starting with a 20MB. The best drive
- > which I have found and used is the Miniscribe 3085, which is a half-height
- > drive with seven heads (but greater than 1024 cylinders - don't worry, this
- > is the easier thing to fix.)
- >
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- My favorite 7300 drive is the Seagate ST1100
- a.k.a. CDC swift (3.5" 9 Heads, A few more than 1024 cylinders)
- 150,000 Hours MTBF (17.1 years, so I need to do a backup in about 15 years ;->)
- 18ms acess time & very quiet.
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