Checksum: 34543
Path: utzoo!utgpu!sarathy
From: sarathy@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Rajiv Sarathy)
Date: Mon, 26-Sep-88 13:43:50 EDT
Message-ID: <1988Sep26.134350.29914@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Seagate ST-251 question
References: <251@fsc2086.UUCP> <16800373@clio> <606@dasher.SanDiego.NCR.COM> <1224@suvax1.UUCP>
Reply-To: sarathy@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Rajiv Sarathy)

> ...
>
>  (P.S. The ST-251 seems to come in two flavors, 40ms & 28ms. When I
>   bought mine, it turned out to be 28ms but was charged for the 40ms.
>   Either the company did not know the difference or there is something
>   I don't know about.)
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> David Woodman		UUCP:    ...!uw-entropy!dataio!suvax1!woodman

The ST-251 is a 39ms drive.
The ST-251-1 is a 28 ms drive.

How many people have used RLL encoding on their ST-251?  A vendor here advised
me not to, saying the hard drive would probably die on me within 6 months.  He
suggested buying an ST-251-R, which he said is better suited to RLL.

Any opinions?

Please e-mail to  sarathy@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca
If that doesn't work (it's a new address) then try  sarathy@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu

Using 'R'eply from  rn  will probably not work due to the  UUCP  addition to
the Reply-To field, above.

Thanks,
--Raj

-----
Disclaimer:  I'm just an undergrad.
-----