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- From: ekrieger@quasar.hacktic.nl (Eric Krieger)
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- Subject: Re: Seagate ST-225
- Message-ID: <ekrieger.039c@quasar.hacktic.nl>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 05:49:18 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.110212.23090@cs.ruu.nl>
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- Louis van Dompselaar (clldomps@cs.ruu.nl) wrote:
- > In <1992Dec18.033034.11802@news2.cis.umn.edu> avatar@wings.micro.umn.edu
- > (Timothy Fay) writes:
- > >
- > >I have an ST225 in my XT clone that I've used _heavily_ since 1987 (and
- > >it was a year or two old when I got it). The drive crashed once in 1988
- > >(when I accidentally overwrote track 0). I did a low-level reformat
- > >then, and haven't had any problems with it since.
-
- > I've been using one too for over a year now. Works okay, though it
- > doesn't support all the SCSI commands it should (you can't, for instance,
- > use the 'check drive' function in Commodore's SCSI util-thing)
-
- Hooo. You're talking about the ST225N, which is a SCSI-device. But
- the original post was about the ST225 (without the N) and is a MFM
- (ST412) HD. There's also a ST225R which is a RLL (ST412) HD.
-
- And here are the specs:
-
- ZPHYSICAL? LOG.
- MANUFACTURER UNFORMAT WTH. PL CYLS ST CYLS INTERFACE ACC POWER
- MODEL NUMBER FORMATED HGT. HD PREC AC HDS REC.METH T-T MTBF
- ADDITIONAL COMMENTS ST XFER
- =======================================================================
- SEAGATE 25.6MB 5.25 2 615 17 ST412 65mS 14.8W
- ST225 21.4MB HALF 4 300 SM MFM 20.0m 100K
- 670 5.0Mb P?= N
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------
- CYLS ... TOTAL CYLINDERS AC ....... HEAD ACTUATOR
- ST ..... SECTORS PER TRACK XFER ..... TRANSFER RATE
- PL ..... NUMBER OF PLATTERS P? ....... SELF PARKING ?
- HD(S) .. # OF READ/WRITE HDs MZR ...... MULTIPLE ZONE-
- ACC .... AVERAGE ACCESS TIME RECORDING
- T-T .... TRACK TO TRACK TIME LZ ....... LANDING ZONE
-
- Source: TheREF V4.21 (F.R. Falbo)
-
-
- > Louis van Dompselaar (clldomps@cs.ruu.nl) 4th year cs student
-