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Tech Bulletin #3 |
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Seagate ST- MFM Drives |
Oct 20, 1998 |
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source to recommend for the Seagate ST-225 20 MB and
ST-251 40 MB MFM hard drives used in the early Flying
Faders systems. (MFM is a family of drives that use
Modified FM encoding in the recording process.) Robert
Preston at Reflection Sound recently brought to my
attention a company in Valencia, CA named Valtron. They
repair/rebuild/refurbish a wide variety of hard drives.
The Seagate drives are available outright for $45 with a
1 year warranty and typically overnight availability. Let the buyer beware! Although these drives are a suitable fix for a broken system, these are not new drives. Valtron runs the drives through a sequence of tests to verify conformance to the manufacturer's spec, but the repair/refurbishing process does not guarantee 'like new' life. But what would you expect for only $45?? And Reflection Sound is back on the air. Valtron Technologies 800 282-5876 Ryan at 805 294-6355 And no, we have never been successful in changing the Hewlett Packard ES-12 computers from MFM to IDE. Sorry about that!! This is why a source for replacement MFM drives is important. Robert's
symptom, by the way, was a growling of the spindle
bearings, indicating imminent bearing failure. He took
care of the problem before everything froze up. |
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