rl@cbnewsl.att.com (roger.h.levy) (01/10/91)
I'd like some information on a Seagate disk drive that is marked both ST-253 and 94205-51. A couple of months ago, I bought a CDC drive model 94205-51. This is a 40 Mbyte, HH, 5 cyl, 989 track drive. It failed after about 5 weeks. After returning to my supplier, I received in exchange the above mentioned Seagate. It looks very much what I remember the CDC looking like. The CDC (Wren II) is a fairly well known drive that appears in both HD databases I have. I can't find a reference to the Seagate even in a recent database that has info on about 800 drives. Are these the same drives? If not, what are the specs I need to know to get the Seagate running? I noticed that both CDC and Seagate use model designations in the form 94xxx-yy where yy appears to be the unformatted drive capacity. Is this a coincidence? Does this designation encode any other useful information? What kind of deal did I get in this exchange? Roger Levy ...!att!groucho!rl
JRKUHN@MTUS5.BITNET (01/11/91)
What you have is, in essence, a CDC drive. Approximately 4 months ago, Seagate bought out CDC's small drive manufacturing division. Since then, Seagate has been adding drive numbers daily. *------------------------------------------------------------* * From the frosty cold of the north. JRKUHN @ MTUS5.BITNET * *------------------------------------------------------------*
tbrown@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (Thomas Brown [901015]) (01/21/91)
The Seagate ST-253 is a bit rare, but here are the correct paramaters: 989 Cylinders 5 Heads 17 Sectors/track 43 MB total capacity 0 Reduced write current 128 Write pre-comp. 0 Landing zone --=-- Thomas Brown, KA2UGQ BITNET: twb0@lehigh.bitnet Lehigh University UC Box 855 ARPA: tbrown@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU Bethlehem, PA 18015 UUCP: ..!uunet!twb0@lehigh.bitnet (215) 758-0093 AX.25: ka2ugq@ka2ugq.nj.usa.na 'You can't have everything...where would you put it?' -S.W.