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From: jinkins@ut-emx.UUCP (Richard Jinkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Seagates under Unix???  (or best pick)
Summary: What kind of problems?
Message-ID: <23357@ut-emx.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 90 19:49:36 GMT
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In article <25B611B6.9729@paris.ics.uci.edu>, asickels@ics.uci.edu (Alan Sickels) writes:
> Do not, repeat _DO NOT_ get a Seagate ST4096!  They have a high fail
> rate and >50% are returned because of it (at least at the store where
> I work.).

Could you be more specific as to how these drives are failing. I
currently am running a 4096 in my 386 running ESIX (Unix 5.3.2) with
no problems. This drive has been running almost constantly (except
when I am on vacation or there is a thunderstorm) for over a year and
a half. The only problem that I have experienced was one time after being
off for two weeks the disk did not spin up when the system was first powered
on. After power cycling the system it came up immediately.

Richard Jinkins
jinkins@emx.utexas.edu