Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!ucbvax!agate!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!humu!uhccux!yuan From: yuan@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Yuan 'Hacker' Chang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Comotose Seagate follow-up & question Summary: New Seagates are worse than old ones Keywords: Seagate, Hard Drives, Suck Message-ID: <3875@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 1 May 89 02:00:55 GMT References: <5586@cs.Buffalo.EDU> <15311@gryphon.COM> Reply-To: yuan@uhccux.UUCP (Yuan 'Hacker' Chang) Organization: Univ. of Barbarians. Honolulu, Hawaii Lines: 26 In article <15311@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes: - -Well..... as I said earlier there was an article in PC week about -Seagate's current problem with with quality control. - [ . . . . . ] -Next worst off, specifically mentioned were the ST-4096. Distributors -mentioned up to 24% failure rates. My 4096 just failed on me recently, so I guess I'm qualified to comment on this. 8) It seems that the newer drives from Seagate has more problems than the old ones. Mine just has a horrible head crash for no apparent reason: I was just using my AT as a terminal, and all of a sudden the drive just decided to recalibrate itself. Since the system unit is located on a shelf which I have no chance of knocking into (too many things in the way 8), I didn't think much of it. Then when I turned off the drive, I heard the disk squeek. Next time that I turned the system on, the drive wouldn't initialize, and I could hear all kinds of screams and gronks eminating from the drive. This self-destructive behaviour for a 4 month old drive really surprised me. I also saw a 4038 where a head fell off the actuator arm without external shock of any sort. On the other hand, my 4 year old ST-225 is still alive and kicking... -- Yuan Chang "What can go wrong, did" UUCP: {uunet,ucbvax,dcdwest}!ucsd!nosc!uhccux!yuan ARPA: uhccux!yuan@nosc.MIL "Wouldn't you like to INTERNET: yuan@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu be an _A_m_i_g_o_i_d too?!?"