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From: pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: More on ST-251 (was Re: More on the ST-225...)
Summary: 251's seem to be *almost* 251-1's now!
Message-ID: <253@octopus.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jun 88 14:17:49 GMT
References: <4347@zodiac.UUCP> <8839@dhw68k.cts.com> <3594@tekgvs.TEK.COM> <11281@steinmetz.ge.com>
Reply-To: pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann)
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In article <11281@steinmetz.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>The ST251 is a 42MB half height. I have accumulated one year each on two
>of these drives, and have had zero problems. If the 38ms seek is too
>slow there is a 251-1 model with 28ms seek. If I were buying again I'd
>get it. It's plated media, and RLL controller makers have said it works
>with their drives. I'm waititng for time to try.

What is really interesting is that the latest ST-251's I've tried had sub-30
ms seek times. Possibly, Seagate could be making one drive, and selling as
ST-251's those that don't meet -1 specs. *This is only a rumor*. I have no
way of checking it out!

Seagate definitely seems to have been working on their drive quality. Recent
ST-225's have better quality media as well, reported to work well on RLL
controllers by Perstor (c.f. my list of RLL-able drives, provided by Perstor;
the relevant part is that ST-225 rev #003 with S/N > 1,000,000, and rev #003B
and up, all work well with RLL).

Pete

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