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To: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu>
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Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine 
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Date: Sat, 12 Aug 1995 20:20:43 +0100
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From: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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In message <Pine.LNX.3.91.950812150931.9552k-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu>, -V
ince- writes:
>	Is Micropolis pretty reliable though?  What drives does wcarchive 
>and freefall use?

Dunno. One sector seems to be coming up repeatedly as bad, although I
haven't scanned the logs closely enough to see if it's more than one
or not. Probably be fixed by changing the appropriate mode page to
enable auto-bad-block remapping by the drive.

wcarchive uses 2 5.25" FH (Full Height) Micropolis 3Gb drives, 6
Segate 5.25" FH drives (somewhere around the 2-3Gb mark) and an
assortment of Seagate Hawks and Quantum Grand Prix's. See
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/config for more.

freefall seems to run with Quantum drives (1 Empire 2100 and 2
PDS1800's judging by the dmesg).

Gary