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