15 Sep
1999
15 Sep
'99
2:03 p.m.
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, cem14(a)cornell.edu wrote:
Actually if going with MFM drives probably the best thing you can do is to
get a VAXstation 2000 (aka Hard Drive Formatter), and hunt up Quantum
Q540's and Maxtor XT-2190's at your local junk dealers, swap meets and
scrappers.
I still cringe when I think of the one local scrapper telling me he'd
scrapped and ENTIRE crate of UNUSED RD54's :^(
Zane
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Which if the drives that Dave mentioned is
considered reliable?
(repeated below)
RD50 5mb Seagate ST506
RD51 10mb Seagate ST412
RD52 35mb Quantum Q540
RD53 71mb Micropolis 1325
RD54 159mb Maxtor XT-2190
RD31 21mb Seagate ST225
RD32 42mb Seagate ST251
I'd say the RD52 is probably the *most* reliable, but it's pretty small. I
use them a lot on PDP11 systems where OSs tend to be much more compact. I've
had reasonably good luck with RD54s, though they're a bit harder to find.
You'll be able to find one of those if you hunt around a bit.
-Dave McGuire