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- From: anderson@sapir.cog.jhu.edu (Stephen Anderson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware
- Subject: Re: Advice on Seagate Drive
- Message-ID: <ANDERSON.93Jan12170731@sapir.cog.jhu.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 22:07:31 GMT
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- Organization: Dept. of Cognitive Science, The Johns Hopkins University
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- In-reply-to: jimb@access.digex.com's message of 12 Jan 93 18:13:41 GMT
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- >>>>> On 12 Jan 93 18:13:41 GMT, jimb@access.digex.com (Jim Brooking) said:
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- jimb> Does anyone have anything to say, pro or con, about the
- jimb> Seagate model ST42400N drive? We're thinking about
- jimb> buying one for external use on a server cube.
-
- I have one of these, which I installed as the internal drive in my
- cube. It's big, it's fast, and I've had absolutely no trouble with it
- so far (apart from the fact that I installed it first with the
- termination resistors in backwards, and had to take it out and reverse
- them....). It's not as quiet as the old Maxtor, but it's not at all
- disturbingly noisy either.
-
- Two comments, though: (a) you'll probably have to pay extra to get a
- 5-year warranty on the drive, but ask about it. It's not that
- expensive, and 5 years is a long time. (b) TheFormatter didn't
- understand the drive, so I wasn't able to format it in 1024 byte
- sectors. I corresponded with the authors of TheFormatter, who
- suggested that if I could get them a copy of the drive tech manual
- they could probably get the program to cope with it. I never pursued
- this, but now I kind of wish I had, since I'd get about another 120
- Mbytes of space on the drive (plus more speed) that way. Perhaps if a
- few people are interested, it would be in someobdy's interest to
- figure out how to reformat these drives with bigger sectors.
-
- --Steve Anderson
-
-