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From: Timothy J Luoma <luomat@peak.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 97 21:36:00 -0500
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Subject: Re: Advice on new SCSI hardware
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	Author:        Chris Dillon <cdillon@tri-lakes.net>
	Original-Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 17:21:15 -0600 (CST)
	Message-ID:    <XFMail.971120172732.cdillon@tri-lakes.net>

> > I have two Micropolis 3243 drives.  I don't belive they make
> > these anymore, as I got mine almost two years ago.  I hate
> > them.  One of them is flaky (locks up, and requires a _power
> > cycle_ before it will respond to a problem).  They also run
> > hot.
>
> Thanks. This confirms my suspicion about those drives.   :-)

I have a MicroPolis #1598.  I think it is circa 1991 or so.

It is a *tank*.  A 1 gig full height drive.  BUT it has been on constantly  
for years, used as the boot drive, and has had absolutely no problems.

I would have bought another in a minute.  However, since I can't ge the  
MicroPolis web page, things look bad.....

Just another datapoint
TjL