Large third party ESDI disks for the IBM RT under 4.3 ?

[Yuval Tamir]

Large (> 600 MB) ESDI disks are now available for under $3K
(for example, from CDC and from Maxtor).

I am looking for information from people who are successfully
using such disks on the IBM RT running 4.3 BSD.
Specifically, I am looking for the following:
1) Good and bad experiences regarding the reliability
   and performance of the disks.
2) Description of the parameters used to format the disks.
   Any problems in formatting the disks using the standard
   utilities provided by IBM.
3) Sources for these disks at low prices (for an academic institution).

If there is interest, I will summarize the info I receive
in comp.ibm.pc.rt.

			   Yuval Tamir

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