Qume 142 (was: Re : 5.25 drive with sector output

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Monday 24 December 2007 20:11, Fred Cisin wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Dec 2007, dwight elvey wrote:
> >  By slow, you mean step rate? No Problem.
>
> OK
>
> > > 2) We had an extremely high failure rate with that particular drive.
> >
> >  For what I need, once I've got the setup working, I'll settle for it to
> > work for about another week.
>
> My experiences with an admittedly small sample of a dozen of those drives
> were that IF you select one that is not DOA, that is about the length of
> time that you can expect it to continue working.

I've not had bad luck with those drives,  so if you all have any that you 
don't want,  feel free to let me know...

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