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Subject: Hard disk questions
Message-ID: <2312@unc.cs.unc.edu>
Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 01:11:49 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  5 01:11:49 1987
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Reply-To: leech@unc.UUCP (Jonathan Leech)
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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    I wonder if the net could enlighten me on the subject of hard
disk drives for AT compatibles? I'm planning to purchase an 80386
system soon, probably from Tandy. Their disk prices are absurdly high,
so I've been poking around the trades looking for cheap mass storage.
There appear to be several different types of controllers - ST506(?),
RLL, ESDI. I would like to know what the differences are among the
various models of controllers and what sorts of disks go with what
controllers. In particular, I saw an ad in the current Computer
Shopper offering a ST277R hard disk for $469. This appears to have a
capacity of 65 Mb and AAT of 40 ms; information on this model would
be appreciated, as would general advice on purchasing mass storage.

    Please send mail, don't post; I'll summarize if sufficient
interest.
-- 
    Jon Leech (leech@cs.unc.edu)    __@/
    ``Thus Mathematics helps / our brains and hands and feet 
      and can make / a race of supermen out of us.''
    	- The Education of T. C. Mits