On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:54 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Adam Maas >> >> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Evan Hanson >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> > >>> > I've got four computers here and the two bad CD's won't work on any of >>> > them. >>> > What really gets me is that Apple knew that they had a batch of >>> > seagate >>> > drives prone to self destruction and didn't warn us. Evidently the >>> > arms >>> > have a habit of smashing the heads into the platters destroying the >>> > data. >>> > >>> > Arghhh. >>> > >>> > Evan >>> > >> >> There's no such thing as a bad batch of Seagate Drives. All of their >> SATA and PATA drives have been unreliable ever since they shifted >> production of non-SCSI drives to the old Connor factories after the >> Connor buyout in the mid-90's. Every Seagate I've acquired since then >> has failed (I keep getting them in systems or external drives). > > Just goes to show I can't do anything right. I've never had a problem with > Seagate drives. >
The sad part is that Seagate SCSI drives are among the most reliable ever seen. I own a half-dozen pre-96 Seagate SCSI drives, the oldest dating to 1987. All are completely functional (if very small). The drives are in my small collection of old 68k Macs. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
