IBM 3380 disk drives / info?

Were these the 8" 5 and 10meg units? When they required their own special controller prior to switching to SCSI? Jeff >I've got one better, do you remember the old Bernuolli removable disk drives, >the original big beasts in IBM PC/XT cases??? Well, there used to be a >serious problem with their power supplies, you would be working in a lab and all >of a sudden you'd hear this loud thunderous "thump" type explosion and out from >the box would pour out this white nasty ozone'ish smoke. After nervously >pulling the plug, you would slide off the cover to find one of the coke-can >sized cap's had completely blown off the top and if you looked at the inside of >the top cover there would be this spectacular meteor-crater shaped carbon mark >where the capacitor had blown upward and scorched the inside of the case. >Now thats quality assurance!!! :-)