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From: dag@fciva.FRANKLIN.COM (Daniel A. Graifer)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.intel,comp.periphs
Subject: MaxTor Drives for Prime EXL316
Keywords: MaxTor SCSI Prime EXL316
Message-ID: <424@fciva.FRANKLIN.COM>
Date: 23 Sep 88 20:05:45 GMT
Organization: Franklin Capital Investments, McLean, Va.
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We have a Prime EXL316 (An intel386 box, Prime's first entry into
the unix market).  It came with a 258Mbyte SCSI hard drive that
appears to be an off-the-shelf MaxTor XT3280 (series 4).  We would
like to add a second disk, but Prime has quoted almost $8,000 for
a second drive.  I've gotten indicative quotes from a couple of 
suppliers for 1/3 this price.  My question is:  Does Prime do anything
special to the drives before they distribute them?  Can I just buy the
MaxTor drive, run fmtdisk and mkvtoc and be ready to mount the partitions?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance...
	--dan

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