Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!iuvax!purdue!decwrl!nsc!pyramid!eric From: eric@pyrps5 (Eric Bergan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Hard Disk Choice Message-ID: <49120@pyramid.pyramid.com> Date: 30 Nov 88 07:04:24 GMT Sender: daemon@pyramid.pyramid.com Lines: 17 As some of you may recall, at various times I have posted about having occasional problems with my Seagate ST-251 locking up with the access light on. Well, I finally broke down and took my Amiga 2000 into a shop to have someone look into the problem. Their verdict is that the drive itself is failing. The drive is no longer in warranty, and I have no idea whether I could find someone to try and service it. (Note, I'm not having any problems with read/write errors, so it is probably not a media problem, just a component problem.) Anyone know if the drive itself can be repaired, and where I would go to have that done? If the drive is a write-off, I'm hesitant to replace it with another Seagate. Eight months is not a very long life time. Have others had problems with Seagates? What are other reasonable choices for a ~40Mbyte drive, reasonable access time, and reasonable price?