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Article #617Re: Incompatibility issues concerning Seagate drives & TX chipset -- Pt. 2
From: todd
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 00:00
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 00:00
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found this problem myself this weekend with a st31621a wasn't on a list of affected drives but as soon as I upgraded the mother board to a tx and booted up it trashed all the info on the drive found a small sheet of paper in a previous upgrades mb box from a open to up vio to 3.52 worked Chris Quirke wrote in message <66n4lj$k07$5@news01.iafrica.com>... >Bob Goddard <Bob@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote: >>In article <66bqev$fom@mtinsc03.worldnet.att.net>, Midgard > >>>The known Seagate hard drive >>>models have Arizona interface chip are: > >>>ST31276A ST32531A ST33240A ST31720A > >>>My two-year old Seagate model # ends in an 'A' (ST-3851A) > >>Don't worry about the "A" - that's just Seagate's way of telling you >>it's an IDE drive. > >Yup. Worry instead about the xxx1 part; according to Seagate, unless >that's the 6.4G ST-xxx1A, it's going to bomb on TX, as will any >ST-xxx0A model number. New ST-xxx2A's are OK for TX, but many still >look suspiciously like the old Conner bottom-feeders. > > >>-------------- ----- ---- --- -- - - - - >When no-one is innocent, everyone is paranoid >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,20c52cf4f3da007 X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public X-Google-Thread: 109e38,20c52cf4f3da007 X-Google-Attributes: gid109e38,public X-Google-Thread: f5f89,20c52cf4f3da007 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5f89,public X-Google-Thread: 1045b9,20c52cf4f3da007 X-Google-Attributes: gid1045b9,public X-Google-Thread: f4d7c,20c52cf4f3da007 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d7c,public From: "todd" <tryme@net.com> Subject: Re: Incompatibility issues concerning Seagate drives & TX chipset -- Pt. 2 Date: 1997/12/10 Message-ID: <66n9uo$8cp@camel19.mindspring.com> X-Deja-AN: 297065268 References: <66bqev$fom@mtinsc03.worldnet.att.net> <WkR+SHA3Bxi0EwIw@godwit.demon.co.uk> <66n4lj$k07$5@news01.iafrica.com> X-Server-Date: 10 Dec 1997 23:51:52 GMT X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Organization: MindSpring Enterprises Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,alt.comp.hardware,demon.tech.pc