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From: cassirer@batgirl.rtp.dg.com (Fred Cassirer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ST296N drive
Message-ID: <1990Jul20.010019.26809@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Date: 20 Jul 90 01:00:19 GMT
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In article <28060001@acf2.NYU.EDU> wuwei@acf2.NYU.EDU (Wei Wu) writes:
>
> Is anyone using ST296N (SCSI) drives ?  Is it any good ? Why the
>price is so different(296N is much cheaper) from ST4096 (MFM) with 
>almost the same size ?
>  Thanks in advance.
>
I've been running one on my Amiga for about 6-8 months now, no problems.
It replaced a 20MB seagate (65ms access) and man what a difference.  I can't
speak for it on a PC, I use a standard MFM 15 MB on my 12mhz AT, couldn't see
wastin all that space ...  I've got one possible "bad spot" on the disk in
the middle of a large file, but that's most likely my flakey hardware ...

I didn't understand either why this 80MB drive was so much cheaper then
other comparable 80MB drives.  I paid about $475 thru California MicroChip
out of Computer Shopper.  

						-FredC
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