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Xref: sserve comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc:18130 alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus:11 comp.os.linux.hardware:1976 comp.os.386bsd.misc:5278 comp.os.os2.misc:125206 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.crl.com!usenet From: Ken Greenlaw <mercury@crl.com> Newsgroups: io.general,io.computers,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Re: List of recommended hardware components Date: 9 Feb 1995 03:52:55 GMT Organization: CRL Dialup Internet Access Lines: 39 Message-ID: <3hc3in$ooa@nntp.crl.com> References: <3g890k$cbl@ionews.io.org> <3gjhe1$ced@pentagon.io.com> <D3943L.KrH@bonkers.taronga.com> <2f32e052.4d4f4d45@mome-raths.iac.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: crl9.crl.com sysop@mome-raths.iac.net (March Hare) wrote: > I'll add my voice against Seagate. I will never buy another one, > especially a SCSI Seagate. My experience is that their weird > termination throws off the termination of most other devices. I could > not get more than 3 devices working on any channel no matter what I > did as long as the Seagate was in that channel. I finally pulled it, > even though I needed the disk space. > > John Oh, Jesus. I'm glad to see I'm not the only one with Seagate trouble. We are now on our FOURTH Seagate >1GB SCSI drive in a little over 90 days. The first ST31200N Hawk lasted 8 months. The second less than one week. The third, a 1.7GB Barracuda, lasted about a week. The fourth I am currently worrying about... I own a computer store. I have 8 years of experience in the retail business and have yet to see anything other than misery result from a Seagate product. Back when an ST251 was as good as it got, this was acceptable. It is no longer acceptable. These drives were all properly installed and ventilated; in fact, I no longer leave the damn case on at all out of fear that the drive will do something I won't hear early enough to stop. My tape drive HATES me for the exercise it gets. For the kind of trouble this has caused me, it disturbs me greatly that Seagate would go so far as to upgrade my drive for free but not refund my money or replace my drive with a new (not refurbished) model after all the problems. Ontrack probably could have recovered the data, but of course this wasn't an option either unless I wanted to be out a couple $1K. My distributors, and now this newsgroup confirm my worst suspicions and reaffirm the moral of this story: MICROPOLIS. -Ken Greenlaw -St. Louis Computer Exchange