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From: dd@beta.lanl.gov (Dan Davison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: about Seagates...
Summary: two of 'em, three years, no problems
Message-ID: <23517@beta.lanl.gov>
Date: 14 Feb 89 04:11:33 GMT
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Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
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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've had one for three years and another for one year, and had little
trouble.  I reformat them about once a year and defragment the drive by
hand about every six months.  One developed some bad spots at the end
of the disk but low-level format to mark them bad worked fine.  For
my controller (Adaptek 2070A, yes, that one), the optimal interleave
was 3:1 and it really speeded things up.

dan davison/theoretical biology/t-10 ms k710/los alamos national laboratory
los alamos, nm 875545/dd@lanl.gov (arpa)/dd@lanl.uucp(new)/..cmcl2!lanl!dd
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