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From: john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Question about Atasi 4036 drive
Summary: I dont recommend them
Message-ID: <603@wa3wbu.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jun 88 21:10:34 GMT
References: <6858@cup.portal.com> <27000027@urbsdc>
Organization: WA3WBU, Marysville,PA
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In article <27000027@urbsdc>, tucker@urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM writes:
> 
> The Atasi hard drives you mention were used by Convergent Technologies
> in their Miniframe and Megaframe computers.  They are small by todays

     This is true. We had six Megaframes with Atasi's and over a 
period of a year and a half, all of the drives went bad. Most had their
spindle motors go out, the others just had mega-read/write errors and
had to be changed. I have seen these for $300-$350 in the magazines and 
I would not recommend buying one based on the experiences we had. By the
way, all the drives were eventually swapped out with Hitachi DK-51
drives which are performing flawlessly.

					John

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John