At 04:47 PM 11/13/98 -0800, you wrote:
>
>"I think it is coming from over there." says the SP who is pointing to the
>3350 disk farm. The "farm" has fifteen 3350 DASD units in racks of three to
>a rack. These 3350s (perhaps all 3350s are like this) were on rack slides
>and when you pressed "unload" they would spin down, slide out, and the top
>would open like the trunk on a '71 Pontiac Bonneville.
>
Are you sure those were 3350s? I doubt it. 3350's were not removable drives,
they were Winchester drives - media fixed in place.
I suspect they were 3330's, which did operate in the way you mention.
300MB each.
I too once came in to a room shortly after a 3330 disk head crash. The IBM FE
was peeling the adhesive label out of the works. Some idiot had used a
tape label
to label a 3330 disk pack.
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Received on Fri Nov 13 1998 - 19:02:17 GMT