SMD disk drive

On 2003.04.03 16:35 Jim Donoghue wrote: Fujitsu made a series of 8" SMD drives in the range from some MB to around 1 GB. Once uppon a time I we had a Sequent Symetry S27 at the Unix-AG with three Fujitsu M22??K 8" drives. They had 600 to 700 MB. The former owner of the machine instructed me to reformat the drives at least once a year, as they loose the format information leeding to lost data. A friend has some other Fujitsu drives from that series. He reported that this drives are quite unreliable. Seagate made some 8" SMD drives. The quick specs where on ftp://ftp.seagate.com/techsuppt/ when I looked at them last time. Seagate made 5,25" SMD drives too. The one I have is ether a st41097j or st41201j, it has 1 GB and I can't use it as I have no docs. (Power connector pinout, DIP switch description, ...) Very, very sad. This would be a very nice disk for one of my VAXen or PDP-11s. I own a Hitachi DK514S also. 360 MB, 5,25" FH, SMD. So maybe Hitachi made 8" models too. On the other side: What is wrong with NEC? I have some 1GB 9" NEC SMD drives. Very solid and reliable. -- tsch??, Jochen Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/