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From: tucker@urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Question about Atasi 4036 drive
Message-ID: <27000027@urbsdc>
Date: 27 Jun 88 12:19:00 GMT
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Nf-From: urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM!tucker    Jun 27 07:19:00 1988


The Atasi hard drives you mention were used by Convergent Technologies
in their Miniframe and Megaframe computers.  They are small by todays
standards (35M), but have a good seek time (<40ms).

We have a few of them here, and they have been connected to diskless
SUN workstations.  We've had no problems, but one of the four drives
we recovered (from a dead Megaframe) had many "many" bad sectors.  It
was unusable.

I think the drive is ok, but I don't know why they are being dumped
on the market.  I saw them being sold for $50 each at a ham fest two
months ago.  I must have seen thousands of them.  I've also see mail
order places trying to get upto $300 for these drives.  I don't think
I would pay that much for an old drive.

Tim Tucker
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