From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Feb 7 21:03:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA24117 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 21:03:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from po1.glue.umd.edu (root@po1.glue.umd.edu [129.2.128.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA24109 for ; Fri, 7 Feb 1997 21:03:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from maryann.eng.umd.edu (maryann.eng.umd.edu [129.2.103.22]) by po1.glue.umd.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA23849; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 00:01:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by maryann.eng.umd.edu (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA05160; Sat, 8 Feb 1997 00:01:41 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: maryann.eng.umd.edu: chuckr owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 8 Feb 1997 00:01:40 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@maryann.eng.umd.edu To: dkelly@hiwaay.net cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2G SCSI disks? In-Reply-To: <199702080422.WAA22017@nexgen.ampr.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 7 Feb 1997 dkelly@hiwaay.net wrote: > Chuck Robey writes: > > > > I don't know if it's of any interest or not, but Hi Tech Components of Los > > Angeles has been selling the DEC DPS3210D 2.1 GB FAST SCSI-2 disks for 299 > > bucks. They seem ok, I have 4 myself. These are Quantum things (made for > > DEC, but Quantum is now owned by Seagate). > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > I don't think Quantum is owned by Seagate. Conner bought Archive, Seagate > bought Conner. Quantum bought Maynard and got DEC's disc and tape > technology, most notably the DLT tape. Yeah, I guess I was wrong on that. The drive is a DEC (Quantum) drive, tho, and the specs are easily available from an altavista search for DEC DSP3210. The deal seems so good, I don't understand too well why I don't hear more about them ... I'm pleased, anyhow. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------