Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!att!alberta!auvax!kevinc
From: kevinc@auvax.UUCP (Kevin "auric" Crocker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Seagate ST-225
Summary: ST-225 live long and prosper :-)))
Message-ID: <764@auvax.UUCP>
Date: 14 Nov 88 18:30:33 GMT
References: <1717@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> <4617@bsu-cs.UUCP> <90@usl-pc.usl.edu> <616@ablnc.ATT.COM>
Organization: Athabasca U., Alberta, Canada
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In article <616@ablnc.ATT.COM>, kep@ablnc.ATT.COM (Karl Parks) writes:
> It seems that ST225's had some serious porblems several years ago.  I
> remember reading the net and got the impression that their failure rate was
> rather high.  Lately it seems that there are annoying problems, but that they
> are working for a longer period of time. 

Well, I had a 225 put into an old Zenith 241 in July and was I ever
against it.  I really gave our hardware people a rough time as I had
heard so nuch bad PR about this drive.  So far this thing has the
following very annoying habits:

it sounds like a spluttering race car on boot - an event that takes
about 90 seconds - totally intollerable   This is just to find the boot
record and load the boot sequence.  Then it chugs through my config.sys
and autoexec.bat like a dinosaur.

it is very loud and makes all sorts of strange noises 

when a disk write occurs it makes a death rattle somewhat akin to the
death throws of a typewriter thrown off a 20 story building as it hits
pavement.

when a disk read occurs sometimes it doesn't without about ten tries
and it sounds like fingernails on a chalkboard

Hey, the only time I like this thing is when I'm reading USENET and am
hooked up to the VAX and the disk doesn't have to do anything.

I am not impressed -  notice no smiley!!!

kevin