Re: Incompatibility issues concerning Seagate drives & TX chipset -- Pt. 2

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From: Chris Quirke
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 00:00

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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.

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From: cquirke@iafrica.com (Chris Quirke)
Subject: Re: Incompatibility issues concerning Seagate drives & TX chipset -- Pt. 2
Date: 1997/12/10
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