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- Subject: Re: Disk Drive Purchase?
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- Date: 9 Sep 92 17:14:36 GMT
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- In article <Bu34nA.3FB.2@cs.cmu.edu> ralf+@cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown) writes:
- >The more immediate limit to IDE (and ESDI) is likely to be the size of the
- >drive. If (as I suspect), the WD-1003 only permits 16 heads, then the
- >limit on IDE is 504 MB (1024 cylinders * 16 heads * 63 sectors/track); even
- >if a full 64 heads are available, the limit is less than 2GB--a size which
- >is already readily available even if not yet cheap ($3000+) in SCSI
- >versions.
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- What's the WD-1003 got to do with it? I'm using an IDE right now with 32
- heads defined, and 48 spt.
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