🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sun, 30 Nov 97 21:33:12 GMT, Newz@inf-eden.demon.co.ux (Chris
Kennington - newshound) wrote:
> untuned Cyrix P133+ system with a 1.2Gb Seagate EIDE (fogotten
> which model) on PT5 PCI m/board, I noticed that when I was doing
> a disk-check with Norton 8 Disk Doctor this afternoon, I was
> getting a rock-steady 5 Mb/sec until the last tenth of the disk,
> when it slowed down to about 3 Mb/sec (presumably due to geometry
> on the inner tracks).  Doesn't seem too bad to me.  But then I
> don't play movies.

Just a hint, that slow down you experianced is the same as I
experianced when my Seagate/Conner 1.2 was failing.

So far I have had 4 of this size (1.2 gig - All different model
numbers) drives fail - ALL Seagate/Conner drives, all failed the same
way, last sectors slowed down, then had head seek problems (noisy,
slow and other odd problems), then heads either locked up or sounded
like rocks in a tin can.

Now, I have had 6 Seagate/Conner drives fail in the last 12 months, I
admit that I use my drives harder than most, but this failure rate is
unacceptable, in 18 systems.

Considering that QDI, a major motherboard manufacture has a bulletin
on their web site that specifically state DO NOT use SEAGATE Medialist
drives with the Intel TX  Based Motherboards.

reference : http://www.qdi.ca/products/faq_tx.htm

I used to like Seagate hard drives, but due to constant and
undocumented problems, I am no longer using them at all, in any
system.

I am only using Quantum, and Fujitsu in all my future systems.