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April 29th 09, 09:27 PM
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3753 RPM for old PC/AT 20MB MFM hard drive
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:58:45 -0500, John Turco
put finger to keyboard and composed: Franc Zabkar wrote: heavily edited, for brevity When did Conner Peripherals go out of business? http://www.grc.com/image/srSAM.gif edited Hello, Frank: Conner Peripherals was bought out, by Seagate, and merged with the latter company, in 1996. Actually my question was a rhetorical one. :-) It appears that Spinrite may have no screen shots of modern drives, which begs the question, just how useful is it? - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email. 
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April 30th 09, 02:33 PM
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3753 RPM for old PC/AT 20MB MFM hard drive
Franc Zabkar wrote:
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:58:45 -0500, John Turco put finger to keyboard and composed: Franc Zabkar wrote: heavily edited, for brevity When did Conner Peripherals go out of business? http://www.grc.com/image/srSAM.gif edited Hello, Frank: Conner Peripherals was bought out, by Seagate, and merged with the latter company, in 1996. Actually my question was a rhetorical one. :-) It appears that Spinrite may have no screen shots of modern drives, which begs the question, just how useful is it? Hehe, not at all? Basically it can do the same as the disk istelf can, when you run a long SMART selftest. It used to be diffwerent, when disks were dumb, but not anymore. Arno
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May 2nd 09, 05:06 AM
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3753 RPM for old PC/AT 20MB MFM hard drive
Franc Zabkar wrote:
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:58:45 -0500, John Turco put finger to keyboard and composed: Franc Zabkar wrote: heavily edited, for brevity When did Conner Peripherals go out of business? http://www.grc.com/image/srSAM.gif edited Hello, Frank: Conner Peripherals was bought out, by Seagate, and merged with the latter company, in 1996. Actually my question was a rhetorical one. :-) Hello, Frank: Yes, indeed...I'd suspected as much. I believe that sharing such a nugget of HDD history makes this newsgroup a bit more interesting, though. g It appears that Spinrite may have no screen shots of modern drives, which begs the question, just how useful is it? - Franc Zabkar Not very, I'd imagine. :-J Cordially, John Turco
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