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>>>>> On 12 Jan 93 18:13:41 GMT, jimb@access.digex.com (Jim Brooking) said:

	jimb> Does anyone have anything to say, pro or con, about the
	jimb> Seagate model ST42400N drive?  We're thinking about
	jimb> buying one for external use on a server cube.

I have one of these, which I installed as the internal drive in my
cube. It's big, it's fast, and I've had absolutely no trouble with it
so far (apart from the fact that I installed it first with the
termination resistors in backwards, and had to take it out and reverse
them....). It's not as quiet as the old Maxtor, but it's not at all
disturbingly noisy either.

Two comments, though: (a) you'll probably have to pay extra to get a
5-year warranty on the drive, but ask about it. It's not that
expensive, and 5 years is a long time. (b) TheFormatter didn't
understand the drive, so I wasn't able to format it in 1024 byte
sectors. I corresponded with the authors of TheFormatter, who
suggested that if I could get them a copy of the drive tech manual
they could probably get the program to cope with it. I never pursued
this, but now I kind of wish I had, since I'd get about another 120
Mbytes of space on the drive (plus more speed) that way. Perhaps if a
few people are interested, it would be in someobdy's interest to
figure out how to reformat these drives with bigger sectors.

--Steve Anderson