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From: jim@ic2020.UUCP (Jim Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Seagates under Unix???  (or best pick)
Message-ID: <232@ic2020.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jan 90 15:05:45 GMT
References: <40970028@hpindda.HP.COM>
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in article <40970028@hpindda.HP.COM>, kmont@hpindda.HP.COM (Kevin Montgomery) says:
> 
Yes, Works great.  We are using a tandy 4000 (16mhz 386), with a seagate
40 mb (28ms) drive (st506 interface).  I have never had a problem with seagate.

> 	- is anyone using a Seagate under other versions?
Yes, at home I use an old 20mb seagate and this has worked fine for about
5 years.

> How do they hold up reliability-wise?  Is seek-time that terrible?  
I have not had much trouble with reliability, and the seek time ?? Don't
have another system to compare.  Although I do think performance is great
under xenix if you give your system enough RAM.  Xenix will keep disk 
pages in memory where it can, and then seek time dosn't matter.  If you
keep the number of -Page swaps- down to a small number, disk performance
is less important (although is very important the first time a disk page
is accessed).

Hope this helps.

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