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In <1993Jan5.161126.24505@news.lrz-muenchen.de> jolly@cis.uni-muenchen.de (Patrick Stein) writes:

| In article <1993Jan4.183215.11821@bernina.ethz.ch> flog@open.ch (Florian  
| Gutzwiller) writes:
| > We've just had some annoying experieence with the IBM 0663 and 0663E 3 1/2  
| hard  
| > disk drives. They won't work on NeXTs.
| 
| First time we tried to install the IBM 633E in a Station
| the drive did not work, but without contact to the cover
| of the station it works well ...probably the 663E was too
| close to the cover.
| We installed it then in a cube and all works fine since
| then. 
| 					jolly

Probably the mounting screws on the drive were the problem.  These
drives have copper foil sitting at +2v just inside the chassis,
and if the mounting screws are just a tad too long, they short the
chassis to the foil, and the drive doesn't work too well in this
state.  *Lousy* mechanical design!  Other than that, the drive
is pretty solid, if not all that fast by current high end drive
standards.
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