12 Jul
1997
12 Jul
'97
11:05 a.m.
On Sat, 12 Jul 1997, Jeff Hellige wrote:
On 12-Jul-97, PG Manney wrote:
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!
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.