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I am not sure what Gavin is referring to when he says he misses real disk
drives.  I don't miss the 7933 or the 7925.  Consider this, my laptop has a
4GB IBM disk drive in it.  I am looking at an 8GB IBM disk drive in the 2.5
inch form factor.

The 7933 had a capacity of 404MB.  It would require 10 of those to equal
the capacity of the one in my notebook.  It would certainly put a damper on
the mobility of my notebook, and I don't believe the battery would last
more than a fraction of a second.  I wonder what kind of dirty looks I
would get from fellow passengers when I unpacked my laptop and the
corresponding chain of 7933 disk drives :). Also 10 7933s represented about
$80k. My 4 GB cost $500.

It would require 32 of the 7925 disk drives to match my 4.0 GB drive.  That
would have been about $160,000.

Finally, performing the PM on those drives involved changing filters and
messing with the heads.  That would be a lot of filters to change.

No, I don't miss these disk drives.

Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
HICOMP America, Inc.
(800) 323-8863  (281) 288-7438         Fax: (281) 355-6879
denys at hicomp.com                             www.hicomp.com


-----Original Message-----
From:   Gavin Scott [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Thursday, 08 October, 1998 11:58 AM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: Disc head wires (was Bug in pp5)

Jeff writes:
> Field CE found a residue on our media and suggested someone had "spilled
> a drink" on the top of the drive and leakage dripped onto the surface
> of the disk.

This also sounds silly considering how far up, down, around, and past
multiple seals anything would have to travel to get to a disk surface
from the seam around the top door of a 793x.  I miss "real" disk drives
(or disc drives).

> [...]but if there is a bad apple in there, we can certainly forgive that,
> provided you point out the bad apple :-)

That's what we have Denys for.

G.