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chuck@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Chuck Tomasi) writes:
>dave@FLIP.SP.PARAMAX.COM (Dave Wickard) writes:
>:)We have had mediocre luck with our Rodimes. They are a very
>:)temperamental drive. Sensitive to shock. Slow to spin up.
..
>I would have to disagree about the shock idea from a personal basis.

>While installing a 400T machine I was taking it off the shipping doc.
>It started out vertical on the hand truck, but when I stopped moving it
>fell flat on its side with a very loud slam.  Both internal drives were
>fine and are still going a year later.

Ummmm... congrats (?)   :-)

>As far as spin up time... Is it really critical to have them spin up
>fast?  Most machines don't boot up faster than the drives spin up
>anyway. 

Yup, that's correct. I'm aware the drives work fine and spin up fast enough
in the Apollo nodes, I was thinking more in terms of long term useage.
In other words, where the drives might go AFTER the Apollo. I haven't ever
had any trouble with slow spinup on other drives, but one of our RODIMES
failed once when we didn't have a node handy to test it out in. I brought
it home and threw it into my Amiga. The unit didn't spin up fast enough.
It wasn't recognized. Thinking this was strange, I brought home a 
different RODIME to test. This one also spun up slowly. If I waited
2 seconds after power on, then rebooted, it worked perfectly every time.
>From raw power-up, never worked. Never have had that problem with any
other small chassis drive. The Maxtors have been flawless.
But like I said, if you get a great price, and can consider the RODIMES
a throwaway when they fail, what the heck... 

Dave Wickard  (612) 456-2783
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