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
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Reply-To: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Organization: Omen Technology Inc, Portland Oregon
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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".)