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From: jmpiazza@sunybcs.uucp (Joseph M. Piazza)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Comotose Seagate follow-up & question
Keywords: Seagate, Hard Drives, Suck
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Date: 3 May 89 03:27:40 GMT
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In article <15369@gryphon.COM> richard@gryphon.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>In article <12584@ut-emx.UUCP> mjl@emx.UUCP (Maurice LeBrun) writes:
>
>>As an owner of a ST-277N, I've been watching the discussion of  `the
>>great Seagate question' for a while now.  What I'd really like to know
>>is:
>>
>>(1) is this thing purely a quality control problem? 
>
>Yes. Their clean rooms wern't, and the media they were using
>was trash.
>
>>as opposed to.. 
>
>A desihn flaw ? No. Their drives, are one of the better designs around.

	Hmm.  Paraphrasing from my previous post:

[From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
[There are inherent flaws in the design of [virtualy every model] such
[that the drive motor will NOT spin due to the arms not coming out of park
[position (which they enter upon power-down of the drive)... due to its ...
[rotary stepper for the head/arm assembly.

	And Thad does go on to say the it is a design flaw.  Then you say ...
>>(2) are they all garbage?  (i.e. will they all fail from this problem
>>eventually?)
>
>No. About 25 - 30% of them are.  ...
>If the drive is gonna fail, apparantly it's gonna fail in the
>first few months.
>
>(the sound of a collective sigh of relief dawns over comp.sys.amiga)

	I would love to believe you.  It sounds like it should be possible to
get Seagate to replace the lemon I got now (I've only had it for a few
months and I understand that it has a one year warranty) and eventualy get
one that will work.  However, your first statement conflicts with the one
I posted.

	Anyone care to set us straight?

Flip side,

	joe piazza

PS:  Sorry Richard, ImageWriter II's can print color; the others don't.  ;-)
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