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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Seagate ST225 D.O.A.
Message-ID: <637@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 11 May 88 14:56:39 GMT
References: <2845@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
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In article <2845@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> amlovell@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Anthony M Lovell) writes:
...The 20 meg drive in our XT has breathed its last.  I understand it is
...the Volkswagen of the hard disk world.  Are these babies any good, or
...are they perennial troublemakers?
...  Ours would always start up sounding like a bicycle wheel with a
...playing card in the spokes, and we had to "play" with the power switch
...to get it running smoothly.   Now, it gives seek errors.
...  Is it likely that this is all due to the bargain basement nature of
...the device, or might it really be something else?
...Please respond via mail or posting.

My understanding was that Seagate produced a large batch of marginal
ST-225s, and that the ones made "recently" are again flawless.  The old
ones were indeed the VW Bugs of the HD world.  A friend has my old one
in his system; it has worked flawlessly (including 3 months with an RLL
controller) for about 4 years now.