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From: boyne@hplvli.HP.COM (Art Boyne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Why do magazine's review mail-order PC brands
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Date: 21 Mar 90 17:10:55 GMT
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karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes
>>Response 14 of 14 (9561) by boyne at hplvli.HP.COM on Sun 18 Mar 90 15:26
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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

The problems with the ST4051 occurred in early 1985, if my memory serves
me correctly.  They were corrected after a few months of production.  This
drive was used in one of the HP 9133 series disk products (I believe it was
the 9133H), and the stiction problem caused a lot of grief for the production
engineers who were the source of my information.

Art Boyne, boyne@hplvla.hp.com