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Re: DEC RDxx (ST506) drives (was Re: hard drives for q-bus

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From: Dan Lanciani
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1991 00:36
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In article <14280@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU>, steved@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Steve Dempsey) writes:

| The vendor sez that Maxtor sez the modified XT2190s were overrun
| and got randomly distributed -- you're lucky if you stumble on
| the modified ones.  Anyway, this vendor is the first we've had
| these problems with.  They can't deliver any more drives guaranteed
| to be RD54 compatible.

	And (though probably nobody cares) I have Q540s that will not
work as RD52s so perhaps they are modified as well....  (The Q540s
are of a slightly higher rev than that of RD52s so maybe it is an
accident.)

				Dan Lanciani
				ddl@harvard.*
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From: ddl@husc6.harvard.edu (Dan Lanciani)
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Subject: Re: DEC RDxx (ST506) drives (was Re: hard drives for q-bus
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Date: 17 Apr 91 00:36:52 GMT
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