Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!jonh!jhenders From: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca (John Henders) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: hard drives Message-ID: Date: 23 Dec 90 15:00:01 GMT References: <7062@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM> <1990Dec14.014112.6251@ecst.csuchico.edu> <1990Dec14.172830.14752@uvm.edu> Reply-To: jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca Distribution: comp Lines: 24 X-Version: Martin's Mailer Version Sep 07 1990 23:50:52 In <7062@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM>, Robert Luneski writes: >In article <1990Dec14.172830.14752@uvm.edu> pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram) writes: >>I'm interested, (I'd like to run my 296N with 1-1 interleave 8-) > > I bought one when they first came on the market and formatted it >at 1-1 and was shocked to find that my 28 ms disk was sooooo slooooooooow. I think there was some discussion here last year about this, and it was found that the latest series of Rom for the 296N had been deliberately slowed down by Seagate so that the drives would work with Macintoshes. I guess Apple ordered a lot of them and the Mac couldn't keep up to the original transfer speed. Someone tryed to get the old Roms from Seagate, but no luck. >>Bob Pegram > ____ ____ >/\/\/\ Bob Luneski /\/\/\ >\/\/\/ Diamond Back II Support Hotlines: boblu@tekgen.BV.TEK.COM \/\/\/ > \/\/ Genie: B.LUNESKI1 CompuServe: 76635,2310 \/\/ > \/ \/ -- John Henders jhenders@jonh.wimsey.bc.ca Vancouver,B.C. or jhenders@wimsey.bc.ca or ubc.cs!van-bc!jonh!jhenders