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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PerStor Controllers
Message-ID: <359@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 30 Dec 89 20:29:25 GMT
References: <1011@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <1011@crash.cts.com> jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:

| What if their controller kills the drive?  A possibility, and what if I
| develop problems with the drive after sending the PerStor back and my
| (Seagate) drive dies and Seagate refuses to service it because it was
| formatted ARLL?

  You make your own decision. This has been beaten to death. There is no
reason why formatting a drive in any format should (a) hurt it, or (b)
prevent it from being reformatted in another format. After you reformat
it MFM it doesn't show RLL use, and there's no reason for ANY
manufacturer to void the warantee. If the drive dies completely I doubt
that anyone is going to fix it so they can see what format is on it, and
in testing the fix they would reformat it anyway.

  Seagate doesn't want to replace drives which are okay MFM (as
designed) and bad RLL. Therefore they void the warantee if you tell them
you did it. If you want total warantee coverage and cost is no object,
go ESDI or SCSI.
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