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From: rob@philabs.Philips.Com (Rob Robertson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.periphs,misc.wanted,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Wanted: Good disk drives for VAX 11/785
Message-ID: <3042@briar.Philips.Com>
Date: 11 Dec 87 03:28:17 GMT
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In article <1917@ho95e.ATT.COM> wcs@ho95e.ATT.COM (Bill.Stewart) writes:
>We have a couple of VAXen that need decent disk drives.

>So what's out there?  I'm interested in comments from both technical people and
>sales people.

we have some Systems Industries 9751 (eagle) and 9761 (double eagle),
the single eagle drives are pretty good, but the double eagles are a
constant source of problems, both had their hard disk assemblies
replaced, spent yesterday doing that.  The SI Field Engineer tells me
that the lasest rev of the drive is much more reliable than the
earlier ones---guess i'll wait and find out. 

also, checkout how your vendor will support the drives under unix.
our site is the only Unix Vax our FE supports, so he knows diddly
about the system ('gee didn't know unix cared about the order of the
bad blocks').

rob
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				william robertson
				rob@philabs.philips.com