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I have a seagate Barracuda 4 with a rev 0020. Does this have the AV capability?


In article <48rc6c$qj7@wolfe.wimsey.com>, dougs@portal.ca (Doug Schmidt) wrote:

> In article <48qk0q$3uc@kelewan.dandelion.com>,
>    "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com> wrote:
> >In article <nsx-2011950455130001@nsx-ppp.serv.net> nsx@serv.net (nsx) writes:
> >
> >  the only AV-drives is from MICROPOLIS. The word AV means it is AUDIO
> >  VISUAL compatible, which requires no or little THERMAL recalibration.
> >  None of the drives in the market are AV compatible besides the Micropolis
> >  AV series.
> >
> >Not quite.  Micropolis is the only manufacturer that has both AV and non-AV
> >models of the same drive, or sees a need to.
> 
> Not quite either (or NQNQ for short).  I know that Seagate has now released 
> what they call their ASA-II code for the Barracuda 2 and 4 GB drives.  This 
> stands for Advanced System Architecture or something like that.  (At time I 
> have thought it was the hidden credo of Seagate technical support, take two 
> asprins and call me in the morning)
> 
> For the 2 Gb drive, this is firmware rev 0016.  It uses a different 
> sector encoding scheme than earlier cuda drives.  I don't know if you can now 
> order either type of Seagate (AV or non-AV) or if Seagate has made the wise 
> decision to ship only the AV version since non-AV users would also like a 
> screaming fast disk drive!
> 
> Doug Schmidt   Creation Technologies Inc.    Phone: 604-430-4336
> doug@creation.portal.ca   BBS: 604-430-4376    Fax: 604-430-4337