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- From: olin@cheme.tn.cornell.edu (Steve Thompson)
- Subject: Re: RF35 problems
- Message-ID: <1992Aug15.131155.18547@tc.cornell.edu>
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- Organization: Cornell University School of Chemical Engineering
- References: <6044@npri6.npri.com>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 13:11:55 GMT
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- In article <6044@npri6.npri.com>, richard@npri6.npri.com (Richard Head) writes:
- >Anyone that has attempted to order an RF35 recently knows there is a
- >120 day lead time for this disk drive. My salesperson attempted to
- >explain this by saying Digital was "integrating new technology into the
- >drive", but the reality is the RF35 has serious reliability problems.
- >I know sites that are experiencing RF35 nightmares right now.
- >
- >If you're ordering a disk, I strongly advise you consider a disk other
- >than the RF35 or RF352.
- >--
- >richard@npri6.npri.com <Richard Head>
- >I've fallen and I can't reach my beer!
-
- I have two RF35's that have been running just fine thank you for three
- months. Delivery time from order was about three weeks. Fastest disk
- I ever saw - when booting a whole bunch of satellites from an RF35
- system disk on a VAX 4000/500, the RF35 sustains an average of 85 I/O's
- per second for about 30 minutes during the boot, which is about three
- times what a Wren VII previously used for the job could do.
-
- What evidence do you have that there's something wrong with the RF35?
-
- Steve
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