<Several days? That's pretty quick.... I've spent months looking for
<working ST506-interfaced drives in the past....
You don't want to know how many ST506s, ST412s, St225s and D540s I have
around here doing not much. And they are all good!
<The other 'nasty' is machines that will only take a limited number of
<hard disk types (geometries). Sometimes only 2 or 3 drives are supported,
<and you can bet that they'll either be almost impossible to find a drive
<with all parameters in excess of the ones needed, or it will actually
<verify that the drive has the specified geometry (e.g. checking that a '6
<head' drive doesn't work when heads >5 are selected). Getting the right
<spare drive for one of those can really drive you insane.
And you have to know that little detail beforhand. Then there is the
matter of formatting as some can't (require the disk to be formatted else
where) and some require special software if they can.
Allison
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Received on Mon May 24 1999 - 20:36:58 BST