keithl@loop.uucp (Keith Lofstrom;;;628-3645) (03/08/91)
This is a recommendation for a place to buy large SCSI hard drives. It is based on a sample of two; your mileage may vary. I purchased two Miniscribe 9380S 300 meg hard drives and one Future Domain SCSI controller from Corporate Systems Center, 730 N. Pastoria Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 (408) 737-7312. Phone order on my VISA; I got the drives the next day Fed-Ex. The SCSI controller and one drive worked fine in my PC; the other drive was not compatable with the driver code in my off-brand Unix workstation. The fine folks at CSC offered to replace the drive with a different make of the same size, for free. A pretty liberal interpretation of their one year waranttee. But while I was dorking around in my workstation, I zorched a board on my Imprimis 600 meg drive. Aargh! Extra space is nice, but I had to have a boot drive! Calling CSC again, they offered to replace the Miniscribe with a Maxtor 9760S for the $800 price difference. I shipped the Miniscribe down, they shipped the larger drive back UPS Red. They ate the shipping cost back to me. This is probably the best mail-order hardware service I've ever gotten. I thought I would pay them back by using up some net bandwidth for a plug. Their current offerings are new and used internal hard drives ranging from 20 meg Conner IDEs for $169 to Hitachi 670 megs for $1695, with substantial quantity discounts. They also sell tape drives, caching controllers, CD-ROM drives, and other misc. Give them a call. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom keithl@loop.uucp ...!sun!nosun!loop!keithl (503)628-3645 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Power ICs