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From: henders@mist.cs.orst.edu (B. Scott Henderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SEAGATE ST296N SCSI
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Date: 19 Jan 90 20:51:49 GMT
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In article <1972@uwm.edu> peter@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Peter J Diaz de Leon) writes:
>
>	I am thinking about purchasing a Seagate ST296N. This
>	is Seagates 84MB SCSI disk.  I am looking for some
>        information on this drive (pros and cons).  I am also
>	looking for information on a SCSI controler that will
>	also work with the drive.
>
>					Thanks
>					Peter
>

I have such a beast in my machine.  It runs off a Seagate ST-02 Host
Adapter.  It's a bit slow for me (I have a '386) but with a good
disk caching program it's not too bad (I use Microsoft's Smartdrive).

It was a bit tricky to install since a normal AT bios won't support it.
So you have to tell your bios that your drive isn't really there,
the Host Adapter has a bios extension which will handle it.

Scott H.    
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B. Scott Henderson			henders@mist.cs.orst.edu
Department of Computer Science
Oregon State University
Corvallis, OR     97331