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- From: hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca (Herb Peyerl)
- Subject: Re: HD on DN3000?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.155832.2029@novatel.cuc.ab.ca>
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- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 15:58:32 GMT
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- Howard Owen (hbo@netcom.com) wrote:
- : I purchased an Apollo DN3000 sometime ago. It has what looks like an ST506
- : standard full height 5.25" disk drive in it. I beleive its capacity is ~170MB.
- : Can anyone take a guess as to what this drive is? Does anyone know the detailed
- : geometry so I can move it to another system?
-
- If it's a 170MB drive, then by looking at the label on the back of it,
- you'd find that it was a Micropolis 1355 which is an ESDI drive. If
- you then ran Disk Mangler on any PC and looked up Micropolis 1355, you'd
- find that it said something like:
-
- Cylinders: 1023
- Heads: 8
- Sectors: 34
- RWC: 0
- WPC: 65535
- ECC: 0
- CTL: 8
- Zone: 1024
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