Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!reed!omen!caf From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Question about Atasi 4036 drive Message-ID: <700@omen.UUCP> Date: 27 Jun 88 00:10:21 GMT References: <6858@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) Organization: Omen Technology Inc, Portland Oregon Lines: 12 According to the person who sold me a 3046 drive (is that the one you have?), there was a design problem in the original design. Refurbished drives with a redesigned part are supposed to be reliable. I've been using one for the news file system on Xenix and later ISC Unix without any apparent problems. Be aware that most ROM BIOS drive tables will only allow one to use the first 30 megabytes of the drive. Anyway, they can't be any worse than the $1750 20 MB (now 0) rip-off that came with my IBM PC-AT. (You know, the one that defines "IBM PC Product Support".)