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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Crooked mail-order hard disk company
Message-ID: <818@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 14 Sep 88 22:13:55 GMT
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Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
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In article <18161@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> seeger@beach.cis.ufl.edu (F. L. Charles Seeger III) writes:
...In article <8995@cup.portal.com> Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com writes:
...| (The difference between MFM and RLL drives is the fact that the manufacturer 
...|says one will work with RLL and the other won't... the ST225 and ST238 are the
...|same drive!)
...
...No!  The ST238R uses plated media, while the ST225 uses oxide.  

Where did you get this information?  Originally (at least) the 238s were
225s that passed certain tests.  I'm not aware that Seagate has changed
their manufacturing process for this drive.

Pete