Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!mimsy!aplcen!wb3ffv!wa3wbu!john 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 Lines: 19 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 -- John