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Article #40288Re: MFM as an RLL drive?
From: John C. Archambeau
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1989 03:36
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1989 03:36
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blitter@ele.tue.nl (Paul Derks) writes:
>Mr. Ngai is absolutely right, I have formatted some drives on MFM,
>then later on RLL an on MFM again and I have never had any problem.
>I think the Seagate drives Mr. Archambeau refers to would have also
>crashed on MFM. It is a well known fact that Seagates aren't the
>most relaible drives. I know a couple of friends had ST238 drives
>who crashed (and these ARE RLL certified!), including one of me.
The ST225 and ST238 are the drives that tarnished Seagate's reputation, but
since Seagate bought Imprimis, I do expect their quality control to increase.
I can only state that I've had no problems with Seagates when they were used
properly. I had a two year old ST225 until I sold it and upgraded to an
ST151.
// JCA
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ucsd!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!crash!pnet01!jca From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: MFM as an RLL drive? Message-ID: <977@crash.cts.com> Date: 24 Dec 89 03:36:01 GMT Sender: root@crash.cts.com Organization: People-Net [pnet01], El Cajon CA Lines: 24