Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!tekcrl!tekgvs!keithe
From: keithe@tekgvs.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: FAST disks on PC AT clones
Message-ID: <3435@tekgvs.TEK.COM>
Date: 12 May 88 18:48:16 GMT
References: <21346@amdcad.AMD.COM> <205@octopus.UUCP> <1006@spdcc.COM> <613@mccc.UUCP> <212@octopus.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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In article <212@octopus.UUCP> pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann) writes:
<   3) Maxtor drives seem to work just great, even though they are not
<      certified [for RLL]. Also note that the 1140 is really a 2190 with a
<      different label: It is advertised as having only 918 cylinders,
<      but really has 1224. $1795 at Fry's + an RLL controller gets
<      you 240MB of disk space!
<
<   4) Anybody have experience with other brands?
<

The Maxtor 1105 has a similar story - it's warranted for 918 tracks
but will format out to 1024.

keith