km@emory.UUCP (Ken Mandelberg) (01/20/86)
I have been looking for an inexpensive way to add more disk capacity to
a 3B2/300. One idea is to just substitute a higher capacity ST506/412
for the 30 Meg CDC Wren that comes with it. For example, Maxtor,
Micropolis, and Priam sell disks in the 140-190 Meg range all of which
are cheaper than buying a 72 Meg expansion module.
Has anyone tried this?
The only third party 3B2 disk seller I know of (Absolute Computer
Systems) only deals with the smaller 72 Meg drives, which seemed high
in price even compared with quantity 1 prices for a 140 Meg Maxtor.
I am also wondering about good ways to do backups. The 23 Meg cartridge
tapes that AT&T sells seem a little small when compared with some
of the larger winchesters above.
--
Ken Mandelberg
Emory University
Dept of Math and CS
Atlanta, Ga 30322
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km.emory@csnet-relay ARPANETrjk@mrstve.UUCP (Richard Kuhns) (01/21/86)
In article <1569@emory.UUCP> km@emory.UUCP (Ken Mandelberg) writes: >I have been looking for an inexpensive way to add more disk capacity to >a 3B2/300. ... > >The only third party 3B2 disk seller I know of (Absolute Computer >Systems) only deals with the smaller 72 Meg drives, which seemed high >in price even compared with quantity 1 prices for a 140 Meg Maxtor. > >I am also wondering about good ways to do backups. The 23 Meg cartridge >tapes that AT&T sells seem a little small when compared with some >of the larger winchesters above. I don't know if we're talking about the same company, but Absolute Computers, Inc in Austin Texas supplies (as of last summer, anyhow) larger drives up to a max of 240MB unformatted, with removeable 10MB cartridges for backups, etc. Their address is: Absolute Computers, Inc. 1106 Clayton Ln. 108E Austin, Texas 78723 Phone 512-458-5206 I'm not associated with them in any way, nor have I used their product. This is strictly a public service announcement (my good deed for the day :-). -- Rich Kuhns {ihnp4, decvax, etc...}!pur-ee!pur-phy!mrstve!rjk
cwd@cuae2.UUCP (Chris Donahue) (01/23/86)
Hate to stop the party, but ... Absolute Computers is bankrupt an out of business. They have formed a new company called Absolute Technologies. They never offered a 240MB disk. They offered a total system capability of 240MB (they added 3 70MB drives but violated many 3B2 standards in doing this). Beware of the MAXTOR 140MB-190MB disk. It had/has a problem recalibrating in the 3B2. Driver, firmware, and diagnostic changes were required to use it. MAXTOR allegedly has fixed the problem. I am not sure. Putting non-standard disks in your 3B2 can void your service contract. You will have to negotiate if you want to do this (or hope no-one notices the funny drive in your machine). Also, how do you intend to format your new drive? Chris Donahue AT&T Info. Sys. Application Engineering