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From: grig8348@fredonia.UUCP (LoyEllen Griggs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Seagate ST-225
Message-ID: <1198@fredonia.UUCP>
Date: 14 Nov 88 20:35:25 GMT
References: <1717@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG> <4617@bsu-cs.UUCP> <90@usl-pc.usl.edu> <616@ablnc.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: grig8348@fredonia.UUCP (LoyEllen Griggs)
Organization: State University College, Fredonia, N.Y.
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In article <616@ablnc.ATT.COM> kep@ablnc.ATT.COM (Karl Parks) writes:
;In article <90@usl-pc.usl.edu>, jpd@usl-pc.usl.edu (DugalJP) writes:
;> In article <1717@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG>, jeff@questar.QUESTAR.MN.ORG (Jeff Holmes) writes:
;> > 	Can any kind soul out there give me their thoughts on 
;> > 	the 'Seagate ST-225 20mb (65 ms)' hard drive with, I think,
;> > 	a WD controller?
;> We received ST225 drives in four Zenith 158's we ordered two years ago.
;                                                           ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^
;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.....
;Is this perception right?

Maybe I'm the odd man out, but I've had _two_ ST225's running one on top of
the other in an XT compatible for two and a half years now with nary a 
sign of a problem.  It should be mentioned that this computer travels 60 mi.
at least once a month and usually three to four times a month in the back
seat of a chevette. Anyway, with two fans to keep them cool, they've worked 
fine.  The other four drives that have come and gone (Tulin, Western and
something I can't remember) are different stories.
	Have people really had massive problems with ST225's?
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                                   '. .`                           LoyEllen 
                                     _                      SUNY @ Fredonia 
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