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- From: chiang@cs.uiuc.edu (Sam. H.K. Chiang)
- Subject: Re: Seagate ST-225
- Message-ID: <BzAKA1.BLr@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
- References: <ByDwF9.HL6@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <1992Dec07.022359.1125887@sue.cc.uregina.ca> <1773@necis.UUCP> <1g6ekcINNfak@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 08:15:36 GMT
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- ted@helios.UCSC.EDU (Ted Cantrall) writes:
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- >->In article <1992Dec07.022359.1125887@sue.cc.uregina.ca>, hameluck@mercury.cs.uregina.ca (Jeff Hameluck) writes:
- >->> I just got a free Segate ST-225 drive and I want to use it with an old XT
- >->> motherboard but I want to low level format it. Anyone have the specs?
- >->> Heads, Cylinders, Write Precomp, Landing Zone, etc.
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- >4 head 615 cyl 300 write precomp 17 sectors 65 ms 7 step rate MFM
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- >->
- >->When you do finally get it going, BACK IT UP OFTEN!!! I understand that
- >->these drives are rather notorious for crashing, and I did have one crash
- >->on me.
- >I think there was a time when they were having some problems with ST225s, but
- >we have a half dozen or more and haven't had any problem. I suspect there are
- >more ST225s "out there" than any other single drive, so they can't be all
- >that bad.
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- The ST225 I got never have problems for three years.
-
- Sam.
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- + Sam. H.K. Chiang +
- + Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois +
- + e-mal : chiang@cs.uiuc.edu +
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