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From: ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: SeaGate 296n information...
Message-ID: <4480@blake.acs.washington.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 89 20:50:19 GMT
References: <891113.14502027.074992@SFA.CP6> <1341@uvm-gen.UUCP>
Reply-To: ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj)
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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In article <1341@uvm-gen.UUCP> pegram@uvm-gen.UUCP (pegram r) writes:
>From article <891113.14502027.074992@SFA.CP6>,
> by Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET (Z4648252):
>> 
>>     I know that this has been thrashed royally here before, but could
>> someone send me the particulars of the problems with the SeaGate 296n
>> REVISION 8, or is it 7?  1:1 interweave chokes, etc...
>	Stuff deleted...
>> Larry Rymal:  |East Texas Atari 68NNNers| <Z4648252@SFAUSTIN.BITNET>
>
>I'm also thinking of getting a 296N, perhaps a synopsis of 296N
>problems could be reposted?  On the other hand, it might be 


ROM 8 Does NOT format 1:1 successfully... sure it will run.. if 
a 57K/sec DTR is satisfactory for you !

The older ROM 7 drives (hard to find these days) will format 1:1
and give you about 550 K/sec.

Seagate recognized the problem with ROM 8's and, I believe,
successfully rectified it.  I vaguely recall reading about a ROM 12?

Perhaps someone else can fill in at this point, as i dropped
following the Seagate drives when i ran into the ROM 8 problem
last February.

-kevin
ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu