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From: csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod )
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: ST296N woes
Summary: Are there different versions of the ST296N?
Keywords: ST296N, Seagate, Interleave
Message-ID: <3153@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 5 Oct 90 14:40:00 GMT
Organization: CSD, University of Erlangen, W-Germany
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Hi,

we had a discussion in a subnet group about the Seagate ST296N SCSI drives.
First the facts: The ST296N is not always able to run interleave 1:1 under
all circumstances. We are not yet sure whether this is due to one of the
following reasons:
- host adapter too slow (after all, the ST296N has a rather tiny sector
  buffer of 4 KB; with 34 sectors per track this seems tight, and the
  host adapter must get the data out in time)
- different ST296N versions

Seagate Germany says that all Seagate SCSI drives support 1:1. Apparantly,
there are real-world situations where a ST296N won't do that. Has anybody
gathered more information on this subject? Any official comments from
Seagate in the past? Previous discussions in this group?

Tnx for your help.

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