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From: stoppani@hpcupt1.HP.COM (Peter Stoppani)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Do ST251/ST4096 have auto-parking mechanism?
Message-ID: <5930027@hpcupt1.HP.COM>
Date: 28 Mar 89 02:10:51 GMT
References: <11386@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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>  Hi,  I am considering buying a second hard drive for my
>  AT clone.  I am interested in:
>
>  1. Seagate 251-1 (28ms, HF, 40MB)
>  2. Seagate 4096  (28ms, FH, 80MB)
>
>  How is the reliability of these two models?
>
>  Is there any way to park two hard drives at the same time or
>  these two hard drives have auto-parking mechanisms?
>
>  Any information or comments are highly appreciated.
>

The 251-1 has auto-parking heads!!  I just bought one and the only
complaint I have is that it is much louder during seeks than my old
20MB (40ms, FH) disk.

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