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From: ben@val.UUCP (Ben Thornton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 251 Wierdness
Keywords: Seagate, Miniscribe
Message-ID: <366@val.UUCP>
Date: 25 Jul 89 17:12:01 GMT
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tcm@srhqla.SR.COM (Tim Meighan) writes:

>A good thing to know about ST-251's -- they don't have a head locking system
>of any kind, and the heads just land on the platters when you turn off the
>power.  It's a good idea to move the heads to the last track before you
>shut off your PC.

Not what I heard.  In a phone conversation with Seagate customer support,
a coworker found out that they DO have a self-parking mechanism.

Perhaps your version preceded the addition of this mechanism, but all 4
of our drives have it.


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