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In article <714@udiego.UUCP> stokes@udiego.UUCP (David M. Stokes) writes:

   [Article severly trimmed.  This item is specifically about
   the mini-flame on the Rainbow and my rebuttal.]

>Now I'm paranoid of the hard disk in the 380 (if it;s as good as the
>ones in the Rainbow, it's time to get worried) 

   Gads, talk about taking an idle comment and blowing it up!...

   Ahem.  OK, David, I hate to complain about this point but it's late
   and I am bored.  Anyway, being a Rainbow software developer (yes,
   we still exist!), I can only let you flame the Rainbow's RX50
   floppies (or RX50 floppies, no matter what machine they're in!).
   The harddisks, however, are another story.  If there is one thing
   DEC did right was QAing the disks they sell.  OK, so you pay 3x
   the cost of a drive, but you get one that is guaranteed to work.
   Now, of course, I don't buy MY harddisks from DEC.  But, I want
   to say here that I haven't been aware of any real problems with
   harddisks in Rainbows except where users tried to install a harddisk
   that the controller couldn't handle.  Oh, of course, DEC will replace
   one if it fails and your service contract is still active.  That's
   another story.

   As for myself, I have a 5 and 10 meg drive sitting idle on my
   shelf since I just installed an RD52 (33 meg drive) in my machine.
   All have worked absolutely perfect.  The machine's been vertical,
   horizontal, and on its side.  No problems.  I have two friends
   running Rainbows with RD53s (71 meg drives) for almost a year
   without problems.

   So, all in all, it's been my experience that the harddisks in the
   Rainbows have usually been very stable and reliable.  Now, yes, I
   too can probably tell you horror stories but most are from people
   who misinstalled their disks or bought the wrong one.

   Life goes on.  Like I said, it's late.  There's probably something
   better on the net I can complain about (do I get a flame about
   this?)

   Alan

   Alan I. Vymetalik  @  {allegra,seismo}!rochester!ritcv!iav1917
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