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Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 21:52:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: -Vince- <vince@penzance.econ.yale.edu>
To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
cc: gary@palmer.demon.co.uk, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, john@zyqad.co.uk,
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Subject: Re: Upgrade to my machine
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On Sat, 12 Aug 1995, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

> > 
> > On Sat, 12 Aug 1995, Gary Palmer wrote:
> > 
> > > In message <Pine.LNX.3.91.950812133650.9552d-100000@penzance.econ.yale.edu>, -V
> > > ince- writes:
> > > >	I forgot who mentioned on the list that 4 GB was the limit.  What 
> > > >brand is the 9GB SCSI on news.cdrom.com?  
> > > 
> > > Sorry? They're lying/mistaken. It used to be a 2GB limit (not 4 - they
> > > were unsigned ints), but that restriction vanished quite a while ago
> > > (somewhere between 2.0 and 2.0.5). AFAIR, it's now 1TB.
> > 
> > 	Oh okay, then that wouldn't be a problem to use a 9GB drive.
> > 
> > > And the drive is a Micropolis 1991.
> > 
> > 	Hmmm, are they pretty good and quiet of a drive or would I be 
> > better off with a Seageate or Quantum (If they make one)?
> 
> _The_ 9G drive to have is the Micropolis 1991.  Quantum does not
> make a drive in this capacity (or didn't as of my last product brief
> update 4 weeks ago) and I wouldn't trust 9G of data to Seagates version
> of the 9G drive.  [About the only Seagate I will even sell right now is
> the Hawk series as it has shown to be one of Seagates good drive lines]

	Now what's wrong with Seagates 9GB drive since I thought only the 
Barracuda's had problem while the 9GB was another series of drives 
altogether and isn't Seagate drives using the CDC/Imprimus technology 
they bought many years ago?


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