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From: karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM ([Karl Denninger])
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Identifying ST251-1
Keywords: ST251-1 vs standard ST251
Message-ID: <[2330.2]karl@ddsw1.comp.ibmpc;1>
Date: 18 Mar 89 22:00:07 GMT
References: <12093@ihlpa.ATT.COM>
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>Response 1 of 1 (2330) by rong at cwsys2 on Sat 18 Mar 89 1:6
>In article <12093@ihlpa.ATT.COM> singlar@ihlpa.ATT.COM (Singlar) writes:
>>...factory labelled as an ST251.  Since I paid extra to get the
>>28 ms ST251-1, I want to be sure SAI did not make a mistake 
>>by installing the 40 ms ST251.  I thus have two questions:

>ST251-1 has 2 labels: ST251 & MLC-1
>ST251 has also 2 labels: ST251 & MLC-0
>so if you get "MLC-1", you get what you paid for.

There are also MLC-2 and MLC-3 drives from Seagate; those are also 40ms 
units.... the ONLY ones which are 28ms are those which are labelled MLC-1

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