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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Help needed installing 2.4.0
Message-ID: <1989Jul30.233212.12913@twwells.com>
Date: 30 Jul 89 23:32:12 GMT
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In article <2421@wa4mei.UUCP> rsj@wa4mei.UUCP (Randy Jarrett WA4MEI) writes:
: I don't feel that the Seagate drives can hold up to the workout that unix
: gives them.

On the other hand, I have an ST4096 on my Unix system, with a full
newsfeed on it. Other than a few blocks which intermittently failed
right after I installed it, I have had no problems.

The biggest problem I had was the *software* which would forget that
a block was bad if it ever managed to read it without error.

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