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From: uncosb@sw1e.UUCP (6300])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: about Seagates...
Message-ID: <1285@sw1e.UUCP>
Date: 10 Feb 89 15:42:39 GMT
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Reply-To: uncosb@sw1e.UUCP (Steve Brown [501-373-6300])
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In article <2776@rti.UUCP> cml@rti.UUCP (Carl Lewis) writes:
>
>Ouch.  With all this bad experience with Seagate ST225 units, I'm
>wondering if my recent purchase of a ST238R was such a good idea.   
>
>Any good advice on precautions, self protection, archiving to floppys,
>etc?  
>
I owned a ST238R with Western Digital Controler (WD1002-27X) for about
two years.  I had no trouble with it.  It seemed to be very slow.
I purchased SPINRITE software and ended up changing the interleave
factor.  It seems to be a good drive for the money.

Steve Brown
Little Rock, AR