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From: pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ST225 outburst
Keywords: reliability, first production run.
Message-ID: <676@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Date: 19 Nov 88 19:40:39 GMT
References: <1757@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> <5362@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <770@auvax.UUCP>
Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University
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In article <770@auvax.UUCP>, kevinc@auvax.UUCP (Kevin "auric" Crocker) writes:
> 
> Well, Mark, Both the 225 and the 251-1 have been causing me problems.
> I am not really satisfied with either of these drives.  I've been using
> them for about five months and nothing has broken yet, but I still do
> not trust them.  
> 
  What are the problems ?  Have they been definitively attributed to the drives
  themselves (e.g., as opposed to controller or installation glitches) ?

  thanks,  greg pavlov, fstrf, amherst, ny

P.S.: we have and continue to use a mix of models from a mix of vendors, on ma-
      chines that range from several months to 5 years old (or, whenever the
      IBM XT came out).  The ST225's have not done well: 2 have been replaced
      and one is flaky (periodically refuses to boot until the machine warms up
      some.  Have done low-level reformat, etc, to no avail).  Have not had any
      other Seagates fail, including 3-4 ST251-1's.