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  3. March 2002

Re: Disk Drives

Oh ?  It just magically appears with no cost for writing or maintaining it
?  You're writing the cose for IBM for free ?   ;-)
(I know - certainly NOT enough cost in it to explain the price
difference).

...Neil





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From: Goodbar, Loyd (AFS-Water Valley) <LGoodbar@afs.bwauto.com>

> Also, keep in mind that AS/400s use SCSI type disks, not IDE type. Is
there
> a PC SCSI 17GB drive for $200? Also formatted differently (520-byte
sectors
> versus 512 on PC). Maybe more microcode on drive's controller board to
> support AS/400 communications.

microcode does not cost money

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