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Re: Is it possible to actually get a 16 MB/sec data transfer rate w/ an EIDE drive?

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From: Chris Kennington - newshound
Date: Mon, 01 Dec 1997 00:00
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In article <3482d5d5.1402938@news.mindspring.com>
           jervin@mindspring.com "Felix1" writes:

"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.

    Ugh!  Mine is also rattling at times.  Memo:  Buy some more
 TR1 tapes ....

    Thanks for the warning.

                                            Chris K.
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From: Newz@inf-eden.demon.co.ux (Chris Kennington - newshound)
Subject: Re: Is it possible to actually get a 16 MB/sec data transfer rate w/ an EIDE drive?
Date: 1997/12/01
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