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From: norcott@databs.enet.dec.com (Bill Norcott)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Do ST296N's work with an Adaptec 1542B?
Summary: You CAN use the ST296N with the Adaptec controller
Keywords: Adaptec 1542B Seagate ST296N SCSI compatibility
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Date: 27 Mar 91 19:52:15 GMT
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In article <359@unf7.UUCP>, shite@unf7.UUCP (Stephen Hite) writes...
> 
>  Are the Seagate SCSI's brain dead and can only work with their cheapy
>ST01 card or the Future Domain technology...both of which I've read
>many flame articles on in comp.periphs.scsi for their sorry technology?
>A friend of mine up north said that he thinks this is the case (after he
>laughed in my face for "stooping so low as to get a ST296N"). 

I can testify from personal experience that you CAN use the ST296N with
the Adaptec 1542B.  I used to have the Seagate until recently.  It also
performs MUCH better with the 1542B than with the Seagate ST01 controller.
I was able to get 662 KB/sec with mine (vs 490 KB/sec with the ST01).  This
is on a drive with no cache buffers on it.

I don't think the ST296N deserves a fraction of the knocks it has received.
For a while it was the most cost effective small SCSI drive out there, and 
it got a lot of people (myself included) started on SCSI.  The drive did
suffer by often being packacked with the ST01 controller.  Nowadays, the
Quantum PRO 105 is a much better deal and much higer performance and there
seems to be a price war on the 105 meg disks right now.

Bill Norcott