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- Subject: Re: Need info about Priam v185 70 Meg MFM drive
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- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 20:49:08 GMT
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- In article <choe.714184821@dirac>, choe@phys.washington.edu (In-Jerng Choe) writes:
- >I need a setup information (type, number of head, etc) about Priam MFM drive
- >model v185. It is supposed to have a formatted capacity of about 70 Meg.
- >Physically, it is 5 1/4" full height drive.
- >I will appreciate any information (phone number to Priam?) very much.
- >Thanks in advance.
- >
- >Jay
- >
- >--
- >Physics FM-15, U of Wash., Seattle, WA 98195 choe@phys.washington.edu
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- The Priam V185 is 1166 cylinders * 7 heads * 17 sectors. Write precomp at
- cylinder 128, landzone at 0 (or last cyl, take your pick).
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- Problem is, since it's greater than 1024 cylinders and MFM controllers
- don't support drive translation, and DOS won't see more than 1024 cylinders...
- you'll either need a driver (such as supplied with speedstor or disk manager)
- to get full capacity, or you'll have to set it to 1024 cylinders and work
- with the reduced capacity (about 62 MB formatted MFM).
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- Alex Brin
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