Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!ucbvax!decwrl!purdue!i.cc.purdue.edu!j.cc.purdue.edu!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!urbsdc!tucker 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 References: <6858@cup.portal.com> Lines: 18 Nf-ID: #R:cup.portal.com:6858:urbsdc:27000027:000:818 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 ..ihnp4!uiucdcs!urbsdc!tucker (UUCP) tucker@xenurus.Gould.COM (Milnet)