PATA hard disks, anyone?

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 03/28/2018 01:04 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> On 03/27/2018 08:27 PM, dwight wrote:
>> I recall at one company we used Micropolous ( SP? ) drives. We had
>> almost 100% failure in less than 6 months. It did our company a lot of
>> damage.
> A lot of outfits (e.g. Sun, HP) used Micropolis drives.  Generally, they
> were good, but expensive.
>
> Maybe you're thinking of Miniscribe.
>
>

I have ancient Micropolis and Miniscribe disks here that still
work great.  Seems every company went thru at least one
model that was trash.  The worst from my experience were
IBM disks made in Thailand.

bill