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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MFM as an RLL drive?
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Date: 24 Dec 89 03:36:01 GMT
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blitter@ele.tue.nl (Paul Derks) writes:
>Mr. Ngai is absolutely right, I have formatted some drives on MFM,
>then later on RLL an on MFM again and I have never had any problem.
>I think the Seagate drives Mr. Archambeau refers to would have also
>crashed on MFM. It is a well known fact that Seagates aren't the 
>most relaible drives. I know a couple of friends had ST238 drives 
>who crashed (and these ARE RLL certified!), including one of me.

The ST225 and ST238 are the drives that tarnished Seagate's reputation, but
since Seagate bought Imprimis, I do expect their quality control to increase.
I can only state that I've had no problems with Seagates when they were used
properly.  I had a two year old ST225 until I sold it and upgraded to an
ST151.
 
     // JCA

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