From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Jun 11 21:58:44 1996 Return-Path: owner-hardware Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA26705 for hardware-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 21:58:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from junior.lgc.com (junior.lgc.com [134.132.10.15]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA26697 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 21:58:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dympna by junior.lgc.com (8.6.9/lgc.1.26) id XAA16219; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 23:57:52 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Jun 1996 23:57:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Rob Snow X-Sender: rsnow@dympna To: Thomas J Balfe cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Micropolis In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk For Sale: 10 Micropolis 4.3GB Fast Wide Diff drives, model 3243, Make offer...... :-) Seriously, I think this parallels some experiences we've seen with other Micropolis drives, 1991 & 1936 come to mind. Does anyone have any experiences with the 2.25GB Sequel drives being sold by ISN for 299? 7200rpm, 8.5ms access and best of all a whopping 3 month warranty! -- Rob Snow On Tue, 11 Jun 1996, Thomas J Balfe wrote: > I just lost a second Micropolis 4.3 GIG SCSI drive. The model number is > 3243. Stay away from these drives at all costs, unless losing business > and restore is something you like to do. This is the second one of the > same model to go within the past 4 months. > > > ======================================================================== > Thomas J Balfe tbalfe@tioga.com > President http://www.tioga.com/ > Tioga Communications, Inc 814-867-4770 > ======================================================================== > > "It is well established that the loss of First Amendment freedoms, > for even minimal periods of time, unquestionably constitutes > irreparable injury." > Hohe v. Casey, 868 F. 2d 69, at p. 72, 73 (3d Cir. 1989) >