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From: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Seagate 251 and RLL controllers
Keywords: RLL Hard Drive
Message-ID: <5536@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 9 Jul 89 07:51:53 GMT
References: <1450@dukeac.UUCP> <145@swituc.UUCP> <14998@ut-emx.UUCP>
Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
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In article <14998@ut-emx.UUCP> nghiem@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Alex Nghiem) writes:
>In article <145@swituc.UUCP> root@swituc.UUCP (Admin) writes:
>!>We use RLL controllers and ST251s (60 MB useable) in all of our AT
>!>clones and have had absolutely no problems to date.  These machines
>!>have been in use for nearly a year in this configuration.
>
>My Seagate manual says your warranty is void if you use any Seagate
>drive without an "R" on the end with an RLL controller. You should
>use the ST251R instead of the ST251.
>

And people wonder why Seagate is considered to be a "second rate"
drive supplier!  It's because of these scare tactics, making the
uninformed computer initiate think that there is some magic to RLL
that will fry electronics, damage heads and warp platters if it's
"done to" a non-RLL-certified drive.  Ptooey!

There is no way Seagate could even KNOW if you had "RLL'ed" your
drive, anyway.  To threaten voiding the warranty (is it a "lifetime"
warranty that's good for the life of the drive - when the drive quits
working it's life and the warranty are over? :-)  is simply a tactic
used to "convice" you that you need to pay the extra bucks for their
RLL drive.

kEITHe