What Classic Computer are All About - A Lovers

From: Daniel A. Seagraves <dseagrav_at_bsdserver.tek-star.net>
Date: Sat Jul 12 18:05:46 1997

On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Jeff Hellige wrote:

> On 12-Jul-97, PG Manney wrote:
>
> >Some ST-506/412 -- e.g., the ST-225 -- drives lacked autopark heads, thus
> >inviting problems.
>
> Yes, but in my experience these Seagate drives were real workhorses. I had
> less problems with them, other than when they got bumped too hard while moving
> a system, than with most other types of MFM/RLL drives.

I opened one to see what was inside, and spun it up. I turned the XT off
when I heard the grinding noise. Sealed it back up, fired up Norton, and
it didnt lose 1 byte of data!
Received on Sat Jul 12 1997 - 18:05:46 BST