Thread View: comp.sys.next.hardware
3 messages
3 total messages
Started by Florian Gutzwiller
Mon, 04 Jan 1993 18:32
IBM 1Gig Disks - Don't!
Author: Florian Gutzwiller
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 18:32
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1993 18:32
10 lines
725 bytes
725 bytes
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. jfyi -Florian -- Florian Gutzwiller Tel: +41 61 262 05 10, Fax: +41 61 262 05 10 Open Systems AG, Basel flog@Open.CH Switzerland S=gutzwiller;O=open;P=EUnet=A=EUnet;C=CH
Re: IBM 1Gig Disks - Don't! -> they do !
Author: Patrick Stein
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 16:11
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1993 16:11
25 lines
1381 bytes
1381 bytes
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 -- ========================================================== Jolly alias Patrick Stein Centrum fuer Informations und Sprachverarbeitung der Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet Muenchen Tel: ++49 (0) 89 - 36 40 72 (priv) (0)89 -950 57 34 "Every day u don t smile is a wasted day P) " C.Chaplin ==========================================================
Re: IBM 1Gig Disks - Don't! -> they do !
Author: Dave Olson
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 07:48
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 07:48
27 lines
1732 bytes
1732 bytes
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.
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, | Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
Maria Isabel Barreno | olson@sgi.com
Thread Navigation
This is a paginated view of messages in the thread with full content displayed inline.
Messages are displayed in chronological order, with the original post highlighted in green.
Use pagination controls to navigate through all messages in large threads.
Back to All Threads