Re: Seagate ST-225

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From: sprague.wbst311
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 14:41

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> When you do finally get it going, BACK IT UP OFTEN!!!  I understand
> that these drives are rather notorious for crashing, and I did have
> one crash on me.

I don't know about this specific drive, but some segate drives (like
the ST-251) are known to have problems.  I'm not sure it's fair to
say they crash a lot, but they do have motor problems.  We have one
in a PC at work, which we leave on all the time.  If we were to power
it down, there is no garantee that the drive will spin up again ...
at least, not without turning it on and off a number of time.

In addition, when a drive "crashes" often the drive isn't at fault
but software itself.  I could tell you about the guy who trashed his
whole file system, from within WordStar!!  :-)

			~ Mike  (sprague.wbst311@xerox.com)

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