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Priam DISKOS 3350 14" winchester disk info needed

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From: Ignac Kolenko
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 1988 20:36
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help!!!!

does anyone out there in netland know anything at all about the following
hardware:

PRIAM 14 inch Winchester Disk Drive model DISKOS 3350, and
PRIAM SMART Interface ??

a little while back i bought some **OLD** equipment from a friend at work,
which included a complete UNIX system III software, which is set up to run off
of this particular drive and interface. The problems i am having with these
drives (i got 5 of these monsters - god are they ever huge - 2' by 1.5' by 8")
include: one cannot get up to speed (motor problem), another has a problem with
the second speed of the motor (ya, these drives need to shift into second!)
another has a problem called "read loss synchronization", and the last two
seem to have there bad sector/track mapping tables full, and will not format
anymore.

does anyone know where in the southern ontario region where i can get these
beasts serviced for a somewhat reasonable price?? or trade these 5 klunkers in
for one working unit?? or even a drive/interface combination which will 
accept the same set of commands as this set?? (anyone from PRIAM on the net??)

any info would really be appreciated since i'd love to have my own unix system
working at home.

thanx ahead of time.

-- 
Ignac A. Kolenko          watmath!watcgl!electro!ignac      
"I could sit through any insurance seminar, for days on end, and people would 
ask me, Neil, how could you do it, and I would say, because I've been with 
*Dell Griffith*!!"   - Steve Martin in 'Planes, Trains and Automobiles'
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From: ignac@electro.UUCP (Ignac Kolenko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Priam DISKOS 3350 14" winchester disk info needed
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Date: 26 Dec 88 20:36:16 GMT
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Organization: Electrohome Ltd., Kitchener, ON
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