Ah, but HP will spend a long time explaining why their firmware version is
better than somebody else's firmware version.   This is why you need to buy
the HP-branded Seagate drive for 3-4 times the cost of just buying it from
Seagate directly.

 

Denys...

From: Craig Lalley [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 10:56 PM
To: Denys Beauchemin; [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: HP7933 - Was: newbie question -storing a file from tape to disk
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Denys Beauchemin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I believe you are correct. They had to color-code them. I remember the
jockeying for position to get these heads, what a screw-up that was.

Does anyone remember when HP got out of the disk drive business? I think it
was around 1995.


My turn for memory lane. 

In the early 90's, we order a dozen or so 2GB drives from HP... the lead
time we were given was 8 - 12 weeks and the cost was 2k, per drive.

I opened one of the drive enclosures and found a Seagate Barracuda drive...
that was selling at Egg Head Software, in the building where i worked for
less than 400 dollars.

HP said there was a difference in firmware that would prevent it from
working.... 

-Craig

BTW - the drives worked fine. :-)


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