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From: scherer@dtrc.dt.navy.mil (Scherer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Some of Seagate's ST251-1's running at 40ms
Message-ID: <1806@nems.dt.navy.mil>
Date: 5 May 90 03:50:04 GMT
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Reply-To: scherer@dtrc.dt.navy.mil (Doug Scherer)
Organization: David Taylor Research Center, Bethesda, MD
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     I have experienced a problem now over the last 6 months that I found 
     very interesting and wondered if anyone else has had.

     I've purchase about 20 Seagate ST251-1 drives and found that they all
     worked well but when I ran benchmarks on 3 of them they were really
     ST251 (40ms) drives.  The cases were marked as -1's though.  When I 
     received the first drive that was marked wrong I called the vendor
     and he thought I was crazy but I insisted he replace the drive.  When
     I received the new drive it seeked at 28ms.  The vendor said Seagate 
     must have marked it wrong.  Two days ago I bought 3 drives and ran
     Checkit and Spinrite on 2 of the ST251-1's and they both benchmarked
     at 48ms seek time.  These drives were purchased from a different vendor
     than the one I used when I had this problem originally.

	What's going on with Seagate!  It's one way for them to get rid of
ST251's left over.