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From: logic@wet.UUCP (Henry Kwan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: HELP IDENTIFYING SEAGATE 296N WITH REV. 7 ROM
Message-ID: <502@wet.UUCP>
Date: 30 Aug 89 06:39:12 GMT
References: <2520@orion.cf.uci.edu> <5440050@hplsla.HP.COM> <3409@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: logic@wet.UUCP (Henry Kwan)
Organization: Wetware Diversions, San Francisco
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In article <3409@blake.acs.washington.edu> bissiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Moja Fritzah) writes:
>
>[stuff deleted]
>
>I saw many advertisements for the 296N delivering 1:1 interleave
>FOR the ATARI ST.   Both dealers and mail-order houses confirmed that
>the 296N went 1:1 on the 1040ST.  The selling price at that time
>was $620-$750 for the mech alone.  I bought the drive.  Formatted
>it with Supra software.  The drive worked.  As i had previously
         ^^^^^
>

Were you also using a Supra host adapter at the time?  I have been trying to
find an ICD host adapter owner who has been afflicted with this curse.  I've
failed so far.  (BTW, I am one of the Supra host adapter user who has
experienced this problem with Seagate drives but that cleared up when I
switched to an ICD.)

>
> [stuff about the 296N and Seagate deleted]
>
>So i bought a quantum 80, which is faster than a Seagate, but NOT
>too fast for an ST.
>

Heck, if an Imprimis 94181-702 or an 94181-385H isn't too fast for a ST,
there is no way that a Seagate can be!  Of course, there is the problem of
"bottleneck" though.  After a certain point, buying a faster hard drive just
doesn't speed up real world performance anymore.

[These few lines don't really belong here but inews simply will not let me
post this article unless I "fill" it out a bit with excess "non-quoted"
lines.  Sigh...]
 
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