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From: bkbarret@sactoh0.UUCP (Brent K. Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: about Seagates...
Summary: 225 is one of many
Message-ID: <681@sactoh0.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 89 00:18:57 GMT
References: <92.23EB72B5@muadib.FIDONET.ORG> <6135@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> <517@rpi.edu>
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In article <517@rpi.edu>, mcintyre@rpics (David McIntyre) writes:
> In article <677@sactoh0.UUCP> bkbarret@sactoh0.UUCP (Brent K. Barrett) writes:
> >In article <6135@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Webster Birdsall) writes:
> >> In article <92.23EB72B5@muadib.FIDONET.ORG> Ed.Maurer@f7.n369.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Ed Maurer) writes:
  {stuff eliminated}
> Brett must have missed the 100's of messages previously in this group
> about failed, no-good, worthless 225's.  Seagate 225's are the only
> hard drive that had a 40% DOA rate at the store I worked in, and many
> of those that I told people to buy are now dead.
> 
> He must have also missed the comments in most of the latest Micro
> Cornucopias, from various people telling stories of grief and lament,
> based on Seagate's 225.
> 
> Many Seagate 225's have bad stepper motor controllers, which make it
> difficult to read track 0 after a while.  This makes a disk sort
> of hard to call reliable, huh??

 If the ST225 is all you can complain about, 1 drive of many, you
talking about a good company. My ST277R has lastest longest with
fewer problem than *ALL* the HD I've owned before.. miniscribes,
tandons, et al. 225 was a bad drive, I'll give you that, but don't
condemn the entire line because of one lemon.
 
 And, please, the name is "Brent."


 


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