ff76@vaxb.acs.unt.edu (Jhinuk Chowdhury) (12/13/90)
I am considering (very, very seriously) purchasing a 386-25 from CFC (Computers First Choice) in Dallas (Surveyor Blvd., Addison). The hard disk they install on the machine is _MicroScience_. Any one out there with general information on these hard drives? I would appreciate any information you may have on the Viewsonic monitor (supposedly made by Matsushita), and any experience you may have with CFC? Thanks for your attention. - Jhinuk.
mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski) (12/14/90)
In article <1990Dec13.125918.43547@vaxb.acs.unt.edu>, ff76@vaxb.acs.unt.edu (Jhinuk Chowdhury) writes:
%% I am considering (very, very seriously) purchasing a 386-25 from
%% CFC (Computers First Choice) in Dallas (Surveyor Blvd., Addison).
%%
%% The hard disk they install on the machine is _MicroScience_. Any
%% one out there with general information on these hard drives?
Well, my new machine came with a Microscience hard disk. Made in Taiwan.
3.5", 115Mb, not as compact as a similar drive I have seen on a Compaq.
960 cyl, 7 heads, 35 sect/track, IDE. What I definitely don't like
are the vibrations. I would expect the drive to not vibrate at all.
Vseek and Coretest show an Access time of 18-20 ms. Data transfert about
960 Kb/s. I suspect a cache built into the controller as the DOS copy
is much slower. It makes strange noises on power-up, apart the "shtong"
on head deparking. The technology is probably voice-coil, and the eight
track reserved for head positionning. There were no docs provided by
the vendor, except for the external "controller".
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