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From: jeh@elmgate.UUCP (Ed Hanway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: SeaGate 296n information...
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Date: 20 Nov 89 18:29:04 GMT
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In article <4480@blake.acs.washington.edu> ramsiri@blake.acs.washington.edu (Enartloc Nhoj) writes:
>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.

Just to confuse the issue further, I have a ROM 8 ST296N in my system
(Amiga 2000,HardFrame) formatted 1:1, and it works reasonably well
(>600K/second transfer rate).  Perhaps the controller makes a difference.

Ed Hanway
jeh@elmgate.UUCP