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From: yuan@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Yuan 'Hacker' Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: ST225 outburst
Summary: Interesting, interesting...
Keywords: reliability, first production run.
Message-ID: <2676@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 21 Nov 88 09:22:38 GMT
References: <1757@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU> <5362@thorin.cs.unc.edu> <770@auvax.UUCP> <676@hscfvax.harvard.edu>
Reply-To: yuan@uhccux.UUCP (Yuan 'Hacker' Chang)
Organization: Univ. of Barbarians.  Honolulu, Hawaii
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In article <676@hscfvax.harvard.edu> pavlov@hscfvax.harvard.edu (G.Pavlov) writes:
>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.

	Interesting...  The ST-225s seem to be the most perplexing drive of
all.  I think it's generally concluded that the older ST-225s have lots of
problems.  Yet I'm currently running a 3 year old ST-225 on my AT (fairly
heavily used...  ~ 20 hours/week).  No trouble whatsoever.  I'm just hoping
that the ST-4096 I've ordered to replace it will last as long...  8)
-- 
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