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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Why do magazine's review mail-order PC brands
Message-ID: <260564e0-2559.15comp.ibmpc-1@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Date: 20 Mar 90 02:00:15 GMT
References: <1990Mar6.024915.1295@cs.dal.ca> <360028@hplvli.HP.COM>
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>Response 14 of 14 (9561) by boyne at hplvli.HP.COM on Sun 18 Mar 90 15:26
>[Art Boyne]
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(lots on stiction problems with Seagate drives)

Note too that I've never had a voice-coil Seagate drive fail in this manner,
including 4051's, 4096's, etc.  Only the 251's seem to be succeptible to
this mode of failure (this includes the St277s, as they are the same drive
but with RLL rating).

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