alan@km4ba.UUCP (Alan Barrow) (03/18/90)
I am looking to build an Interactive 386 system up. For Bizarre packaging reasons, I need to use a 3.5" format drive. From what I can tell, both Conner & Seagate/CDC/?? make 100-200 MB drives in this format. I am curious abaout a few things, as I have no personal experience with either... Any info on the following would be appreciated: Reliability- The Swift family drives list higher MTBF, yet the Conners seem to have a good reputation as well. Given the 3.5" limitation, will these drives handle 7x24 unix operation? (Single user) Performance- The specs seem pretty close on both families. Since I will be using a cheap & sleazzy SCSI host adapter initially (ST-02, yes I know it is less than optimal), do the disks have enough smarts/buffering internally to do ok? (performance wise?) The long term plan is to use an Adaptec 1452, but I need to get the system up first, thus the cheap ST-02. Compatability- The plan is to use Interactive unix. Any known problems with ST-02 (Other than they are dumb & slower) and COnners or Swifts? Any recomendations or pointers would be appreciated. (Hopefully, this will save me from the "How do I make this work" postings later, and save me from making a bad decision.) Thanks in advance! Alan Barrow km4ba 404/425-0820 ..!gatech!kd4nc!km4ba!alan