3b1 40meg disk woes: Help

[Mark Sienkiewicz]

In article <17606 at cup.portal.com> thad at cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) writes:
>Also in regards to Miniscribe: have people forgotten so quickly the HORRIBLE
>problems with the IBM PC/AT when it first came out?  The problems were flaky
>HDs, and the HDs were those manufactured by Miniscribe.
>

I remember the PC/AT's.  They came with CMI 20 meg drives that died in
about a year (give or take 6 months) of daily operation.  I have a pile
of these at work.  I never found a Miniscribe in an AT.

The Miniscribes in my Unixpc's still work just fine.