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- From: chuck@edsi.plexus.COM (Chuck Tomasi)
- Subject: Re: Help with RODIME Drive!!!!!!
- Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 12:59:26 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.125926.6549@edsi.plexus.COM>
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- dave@FLIP.SP.PARAMAX.COM (Dave Wickard) writes:
-
- :)We have had mediocre luck with our Rodimes. They are a very
- :)temperamental drive. Sensitive to shock. Slow to spin up.
-
- I would have to disagree about the shock idea from a personal basis.
- While installing a 400T machine I was taking it off the shipping doc.
- It started out vertical on the hand truck, but when I stopped moving it
- fell flat on its side with a very loud slam. Both internal drives were
- fine and are still going a year later. I was a little nervous for a
- while, but once I found that the drives were OK I had a new respect for
- them.
-
- As far as spin up time... Is it really critical to have them spin up
- fast? Most machines don't boot up faster than the drives spin up
- anyway. They have to go through a suite of self-tests before they even
- get to the drive tests. All my Rodimes are in HP 9000/4xxT machines
- which have one of the longest self-tests I have seen yet. The drives
- have plenty of time to spin up by the time the machine gets past all the
- SIO, PIO, memory, and other internal tests.
- --
- Chuck Tomasi | Old programmers never die
- chuck@edsi.plexus.COM | They just branch to a new address
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