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- From: ralf+@cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
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- Subject: Re: Disk Drive Purchase?
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- Date: 10 Sep 92 02:12:53 GMT
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- In article <exuptr.457.716058876@exu.ericsson.se> exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se) writes:
- }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.
- }
- }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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- The IDE interface emulates a WD-1003 controller, which is the original
- controller for which the IBM AT's ROM BIOS was written (the PC and XT
- ROM BIOSes don't contain code for hard disks). Since I don't know the
- register-level interface to the WD-1003, I was erring on the side of
- caution--the head number could easily have been a bitfield in a
- register, with the other four bits being used for other things.
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