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From: egs@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Schnoebelen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard disk problem
Summary: ST-251's don't seem very good either
Message-ID: <5255@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 21 Aug 88 02:15:14 GMT
References: <20389@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: u-word!egs@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Eric Schnoebelen)
Organization: John W. Bridges & Associates, Inc.
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In article <20389@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> msriram@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (M.G. SriRam) writes:
>Many thanks to all who responded to my message describing a problem with my
>                                           And i thought SEAGATE was a good
>brand! i am going to get my dealer to replace this drive with another brand.

	I too thought that Seagate was a "good" brand.  We had good luck with
the 4038 full height drives, as none have died in the last year and a half,
and most of ours are at least that old ( knock on wood ).
	BUT,  We recently ( in May ) got two ST-251's which I installed in
my 386 unix box as the primary and secondary file systems.  About a month or
so ago they started generating errors, and this week, they got so common that I
gave up and installed a recently rebuilt Maxtor drive ( a 1140/2190, but that
is another story ).
	I have yet to re-format the drives, but I don't think they will come
near my unix box again, nor will we order any more of these drives..

	The above are my experiences/opinions, and while probably accepted
by my employer, they are not his...

			Eric Schnoebelen
			John W. Bridges and Associates, Inc.
			Lewisville, Tx
			u-word!egs@killer.dallas.tx.us

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