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- From: koos@kzdoos.hacktic.nl (Koos van den Hout)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Geometry information for old Tandon drive needed!
- Message-ID: <gate.775qPB1w164w@kzdoos.hacktic.nl>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 07:45:52 -1
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- > This is a longshot, but here goes: I have an old Tandon
- >hard disk. It's a 5" form factor, full height, MFM, 30Mb
- >(actually formats out to about 33Mb, I believe) capacity.
- > Does anyone recognize this drive ? Can you tell me the
- >geometry ?
-
- Well your longshot works... (or at least seams to work). According to
- 'TheRef41' there's only one Tandon that has specifications that look like this
- one, and they are :
-
- Tandon
- Type TM703AT
- 5,25" FH
- 733 cylinders
- 3 platters
- 5 heads
- 17 sec/track
- 31.0 Mb formatted (=32505856 bytes if Mb=2**20)
- ST412 interface
- MFM encoding
- 5.0 Mb transfer/sec
- 40mS avg. seek.
-
- Unless you have formatted an MFM disk with an RLL controller this is the only
- harddisk that's close.
-
- I hope this is the correct information.
-
- Grtx. KH
-
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