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Re: Looking for an old Eagle drive
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J Dolliver <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:35:32 +0000
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Back in the day of the eagle drives < EMC had a competitive product called the Falcon drive.

EMC sold us 16 of them to run on two HP3000 series 70 systems for the cost of 80K. The problem with them was that the cs80util was loaded on the drives and we had to perform several firmware upgrades during a two year window. Oh and the other problem with them was , when you performed a shutdown / powerdown 20% of the time the drive fans would not spin up and would cause heat problems with the drives.

I think the drive capacity was 670MB per drive, a vast improvement at the time compared to the 7933 400mb disks.

Ahhhhh the good old days, or maybe just the OLD DAYZ

-------------- Original message from Gilles Schipper <[log in to unmask]>: -------------- 


> If you're looking for nostalgia, why not look for a predecessor of 
> the eagle - the 7933 or 7935. 
> 
> Then again, if you think the shipping for the 7937 eagle is outrageous .... 
> 
> At 05:57 PM 2007-09-27, Tony Newton wrote: 
> >Does anybody know where I can find one of those old LARGE drives that was 
> >about 12" wide by about 12" tall by about 30" long and weighed like 60 
> >pounds? I think (if I remember right) that it was an old eagle drive? It 
> >doesn't need to actually work as I just want it for nostalgic purposes but I 
> >would like to try and find one that is close to Portland, OR. as the 
> >shipping for 
> >that must be outrageous. 
> > 
> >Thanks. 
> >___ 
> >Tony Newton 
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