>I think that the Hitachi DK512 drive on our MSL300 has had a
>number of head crashes judging from the numerous dropouts around
>cylinders 127 and others.
>1. Are there other suppliers of the Hitachi drive or anything
>compatible with the disk controller?
I picked up a flyer at the 12th Int NMR Meeting in Manchester the other
month from a British distributor, JWC, that says:
"Computer field services of Wakefield Ma. U.S.A. offer a ranger of
replacement (disk) units... for Aspect 2000 and 3000 computers"
They advertise 160 Mb and 380Mb replacements for the HK512, amongst
other things. I did ask the prices but don't remember the figures
except that they were very cheap compared with Bruker prices (but
expensive compared to what you would pay for a drive for an SGI or a PC
- as expected).
If you cannot track down the US firm you might be able to get info about
a US distributor from:
Mike Cassidy
JWC Scientifuc
Fourth Ave.
Team Valley Trading Est.
gateshead
NE11 0SF
England
Tel: +44 191 491 4519
Fax: +44 191 491 0935
Note that I have no link with JWC and have never actually bought
anything from them, but they do have a stand at NMR meetings. I'm sure
there must be other suppliers out there too.
Regards,
Graham Barlow
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