15 Jul
1997
15 Jul
'97
1:19 p.m.
Allison and TJ Plajer....Hello all, and I compress two emails into
one....
Snip! Strong message about backing up...
Yes right... :) I am still running without a real backup as I hate
tapes...still waiting for right price on writeable optical drive
types.
The key thing is 3.5 drives is still good and considered best thing
for us if you know what one to get and avoid specific ones. I have
bunch of 3.5's spinning away just fine, thanks. :)
reliable, they are not, as I bought a Conner CFS-850A
850 meg, and it worked
nicely for a year, then one day I am greeted with this error:
I forgot to tell ya...Newer Conners are comfirmed as excessive duds
for sure. Only older 20 to 500mb before '92 are ok but after that
everything gone into dirt. Funny that people who flied out of
Seagate to form COnner in '85 about and Seagate brought Conner back
in, therefore Name of Conner is gone, thank god, but seagate is still
making low end drives with Conner parts. :) Right now you're holding
that 1.2gb drive is really Conner's design. Suggest sell it and find
a real Seagate in ST5 series or their higher end or any mid to high
end Quantums, WD's in WD2xxxx series not 3 or up, they're often early
drives becaue it takes WD time to ease out bugs and compress more
data onto more reliable 2 platter drives are WD2xxxx series. Maxtor,
JTS and oddball names is still bad news IMOH.
it suffered a head crash, it would spin up normally,
and when the controller
Snipped of woes... sad. :)
1.2 gig seagate ST-31276A. and here is another
question:
of reliablity on this one...mixed yes/no but you're spinning
russian
dice. Heh... If you have compared that ST31276A case, besides the
iron magnetic shield and one screw in middle, to the CP30084H they're
look-alike and I have the conner drive dated '88 120mb uses same pack
design.
Now, about your XT case cooling topic, please cover whole right side
of cover grille too. This side where the PSU red switch is and this
side is dead air and not too useful. Must cover all the open slot
cutouts with blanks, that does not help at all as you think. On
related slot topic I did found a ps/2 30 where mouse got through the
open slot and peed/pooped inside and left it dead and I cleaned
motherboard up with hot water/liquid dish soap and rinsed then blow
dry, came out fine and a vastly relieved owner. :)) !!!!
Moral of life, plug, cover all 1/4" or larger holes!!!
Hey, I AM using win95, yes it's goofy too but with top quality
components and lots of fans roaring away I can leave it on 24/7 to
assist me to talk on this emailing list and others things.
(Asus P/I-P55T2P4 w/ P5-100, 1.5 yr old ST51080/ 3yr old Quantum
LPS540, 16mb.)
Jason D.