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From: Addman@cup.portal.com (Dennis A Lish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Do ST251/ST4096 have auto-parking mechanism?
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Date: 31 Mar 89 02:50:43 GMT
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Well, a few weeks ago my Seagate 4038 died, my 4096 has trouble with Excel 
and Norton's Disk Doctor and who knows what else.  I reinstalled my original
20meg CMI that came with the AT (this disk was believed dead and had a repu-
tation of dying hard) it lasted for two weeks and now I'm getting disk I/O
errors in my programs.
 
After a while you get a little weary and god knows what's a reliable drive
to buy today.  Seagate had the reputation of having the best drives for a good
price...but look at my 4038 that's rated for 25,000 hours died after a year
and half.  And there was a message here a few nights ago about 4096s that were
made the last few weeks of 1988 that were bad (mine was made in Jan 88..hope
didn't mean the first few weeks of '88!!!).
 
I'm going to send the 4038 back to Seagate's repair service and hopefully th
can repair it for a reasonable price.  If they're as busy as their Customer
Service I should get the disk back some time in 1992.
 
I'm really at a loss in trying decide what companies make good disks these
days.  You here good and bad things about all the companies.  Plus, IBM doesn'
help the matter either by not including or updating bios to include the new 
disks so that we need a program like Disk Manager or whatever to format it
properly. 
 
Dennis