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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Do ST296N's work with an Adaptec 1542B?
Keywords: Adaptec 1542B Seagate ST296N SCSI compatibility
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Date: 28 Mar 91 17:55:45 GMT
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In article <4218@ryn.mro4.dec.com> norcott@databs.enet.dec.com (Bill Norcott) writes:
>I don't think the ST296N deserves a fraction of the knocks it has received.
>For a while it was the most cost effective small SCSI drive out there, and 
>it got a lot of people (myself included) started on SCSI.  The drive did
>suffer by often being packacked with the ST01 controller.  Nowadays, the
>Quantum PRO 105 is a much better deal and much higer performance and there
>seems to be a price war on the 105 meg disks right now.


	I'm afraid that I would have to agree on that one.  I have been using
the 296N for a year now, and have yet to have ANY problems with it. I have
the ST02 controller, and the performance suffers because of this, but the 
drive has worked quite well.

	However, it DOES have a tendancy to make some REALLY strange and 
unnerving noises at times...

	I'll probably add a Micropolis drive to it this summer, and see how it
works out then.  Get  a REAL controller with it.

./*-


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