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From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes)
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Ching Lin (csmadrin@perot.mtsu.edu) wrote:
: BTW, any commants on IBM SCSI hard disks?  
: I just bought a 728MB IBM SCSI disk for $280.
: I believe it runs at 4500 RPM.

We have one of these in our RS/6000 m250.  It died from overuse
after 3-4 weeks of not being able to run AIX on it.  My previous
message about everyone in the computer industry just doing their
best notwithstanding, IBM just plain sucks.  The only good thing
I can say about their hardware is that it isn't *quite* as bad as
their software.  :<(

	Wes Peters