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- From: exuptr@exu.ericsson.se (exuptr@exu.ericsson.se)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Harddisk parameters: What is WPCom?
- Summary: See title. What value should I fill in?
- Message-ID: <exuptr.554.716427515@exu.ericsson.se>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 23:38:35 GMT
- References: <BuGMIv.738@cs.vu.nl>
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- In article <BuGMIv.738@cs.vu.nl> xerox@cs.vu.nl (J. A. Durieux) writes:
- >From: xerox@cs.vu.nl (J. A. Durieux)
- >Subject: Harddisk parameters: What is WPCom?
- >Summary: See title. What value should I fill in?
- >Date: 12 Sep 92 10:01:43 GMT
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- >I have two harddisks:
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- >(1) 81 MB 980,10,17 Caviar
- >(2) 203 MB 1024,15,27 Seagate
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- >Besides these numbers, my Setup program asks me to give a Parking zone
- >(I give 980 and 1024) and a "WPCom". What does that mean, and what number
- >should I put there?
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- WPCom is probably Write Precompensation, meaningless for the IDE drives.
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- Set it to 65535.
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