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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 251 Wierdness (summary)
Keywords: who's in charge at Seagate anyway?
Message-ID: <[4248.3]comp.ibmpc;1@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 12 Jul 89 17:00:06 GMT
References: <962@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1156@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
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>Response 2 of 2 (4248) by davidsen at sungod.crd.ge.com on Wed 12 Jul 89 09:46

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>In article <962@hydra.gatech.EDU> russ@prism.gatech.EDU (Russell Shackelford)
>writes:
>| couple of weeks ago, i got on the net and whined for help about my
>| ST-251 working just fine BUT not booting the machine like it should.
>| 
>| responses indicated that there's LOTS of unhappy st-251 owners in this
>| world.

FYI - - The older drives (red disk activity light and/or older stepper motor
design - you can tell by a number of discrete wires going to the stepper
rather than a flat ribbon cable) are the ones which have the stiction
problem.

I have not seen the problem on a drive with the newer design -- at least not
on ST251's.  On ST277s I have seen one with the problem, or at least I think
it is the same problem.  It's being RMAd and returned here; when it arrives
I will check it out and let the net know whether this is the same difficulty
or not (it is also possible the UPS gorillas got this one in shipment;
difficult to tell until we get it back to inspect).

Will keep the net posted.

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