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- From: gettys@regent.enet.dec.com (Bob Gettys)
- Subject: Re: Maxtor 210 MB IDE type info
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.123103.2833@engage.pko.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 13:27:19 GMT
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- In article <la68boINNog1@aludra.usc.edu>, dliao@aludra.usc.edu (David Liao) writes...
- >What's the Pre-Comp and Land Zone values for Maxtor 210 MB IDE?
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- They are DON'T CARE's. The drive will just ignore whatever you put in.
- This is because of the nature of how IDE drives work. All that stuff is
- actually hidden from the bios and done locally on the drive. Remember, you are
- already faking out the bios when you assign the head, tracks and cylinders and
- letting the drive itself figure where the data really goes.
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- I've seen various reccomendations. Usually either 0 or the max cylinder
- number. I use 0.
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- /s/ Bob Gettys
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