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From: anderson@uwmacc.UUCP (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 20MB or 30MB?
Message-ID: <1566@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 31-May-87 08:18:50 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 31 08:18:50 1987
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Summary: st238 w/ adaptec 2070a OK

In article <20060@sun.uucp>, dbercel%toto@Sun.COM (Danielle Bercel, MIS Systems Programming) writes:
 
] I am on the verge of replacing my 10MB hard disk. I was
] thinking about going to 20MB, but it occurs to me that, perhaps,
] going to 30MB might be more cost effective, especially since
] I know that I can fill up a 20MB disk immediately.

For very little more $, you can be in business ...
 
] I would be interested in hearing from anyone who has been
] using a 20MB or 30MB hard disk. What has your experience been
] with the drive/controller you've purchased. I've recently
] been reading a number of negative comments about the Seagate
] St238 and would be especially interested in hearing about any
] experiences with this drive.

I bought an ST238 with an Adaptec 2070a controller last November
for $454 with cables and power-cable splitter (from Cal-Abco) and
put it in my Z-158. Installation, both mechanical and electrical,
was a snap (would be for any handy-type person, I think), and the
board takes care of soft formatting, making the software installation
also very easy. I formatted it as one MS-DOS partition.

Almost immediately I had done this, I began seeing problem reports
on the net from people who had this combination, so I was very
nervous for a while. However, if I understand things right, there
was a troublesome spring that retracts the heads at power-down
(I think Seagate later fixed that) such that at a later power-up,
the heads were not quite where they should be. The remedy was to
soft-format the disk again. Some people had to to this more than
once.

Whether by dumb good fortune or the fact that I turn the machine
off only when thunderstorms are rolling through (a lot lately),
I have yet to have *any* problem in six months plus a week, so I
am quite pleased (but knock wood in any case).
] 
] I'll summarize and post the responses I receive.
] 
] danielle
] 
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] /-------------------------------------\
] | Toto, I don't think this is Kansas. | -- Danielle Bercel
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