msmiller@gonzoville.Eng.Sun.COM (Mark Miller) (06/06/90)
In article <2534@etsu.CMI.COM>, dave@cmi.com (David Halonen) writes: |>Hi all, |> |>I'm considering purchasing a GCC Tech hard drive and am concerned about |>its performance, reliability and usefulness. I understand that "hard" |>partitions can be created, protected, mounted/unmounted, etc... How good |>is the software they provide? |> |>Anybody willing to provide a consumer report on these guys? I just bought an UltraDrive 80si and a PLP IIS (my anual equipment budget is now kaput ... next year's too .. and '92's). Anyway, the drive is very very quick. It does have hard partitions, but you have to reconfigure the drive to be partitioned before you can use these. This is a painless operation (like 5 seconds) although it does lose all the data on the drive. The drive comes with the SUM II toolset, an IW spooler, an enevlope printing DA, about 3Mb of shareware, and GCC's utility software. You can mount/unmount partitiosn from the Partition DA, but you can't resize them (since they're hard). The PLP II is an awesome bit of work. If you have the memory and CPU to do all the work (the PLP is pretty much just a print engine), this is an outstanding way to go. Get hold of the GCC catalog and in the back they list all their dealers. The PLP II is on like a 90 day backorder, the PLP IIS is on like a 30 day back order. -MSM ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mark S. Miller "Different "In a nation ruled by swine, UUCP: msmiller@Sun.COM things all pigs are upward mobile." GEnie/AOL: MSMILLER vary" - Hunter S. Thompson