[comp.periphs] Problems with Miniscribe 338Mb ESDI drive ?

dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) (04/04/89)

	I'm about to buy a 300+Mb drive for 386 PC. CompuAdd has the good
price of $1700 for the Miniscribe 338Mb. However I've heard that this drive
is unreliable. Any other reports or experiences or recommendations on
similar drives that are reliable ?
	Please email responses. Thanks.

				Cheers,
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				Dept. Neurobiology	dan@rna.rockefeller.edu
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kg@elan.UUCP (Ken Greer) (04/06/89)

From article <466@rna.UUCP>, by dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o):
> 
> 	I'm about to buy a 300+Mb drive for 386 PC. CompuAdd has the good
> price of $1700 for the Miniscribe 338Mb. However I've heard that this drive
> is unreliable. Any other reports or experiences or recommendations on
> similar drives that are reliable ?

We've had good success with the Maxtor XT4380E disk drive.
We have four of them.  Make sure it's the XT with E suffix.
An older model of the same drive numbered EXT4380 should be avoided!
We had one and it was very flakey!!  The XT4380E is the new one
which is fine.