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- From: mph@plasma.apana.org.au (Martin Peter Howell)
- Subject: Re: formatted capacity of Maxtor 7120A?
- References: <9211022129.AA07069@enuxha.eas.asu.edu> <Bx48s8.CFx@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca>
- Organization: APANA site, Melbourne, Australia
- Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 00:44:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.004433.34077@plasma.apana.org.au>
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- schao@monet.uwaterloo.ca (Stewart Chao) writes:
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- >I have a Maxtor 7120A and the settings are 1024 cyl, 14 heads and 17 sectors. I'm
- >not sure about the sectors (but I'm positive about the cyl and heads). The
- >formatted capacity is 119Mb. It was also posted on the net a while back that
- >the Maxtor could be set to about set of cyl, heads, and sectors by setting a
- >jumper.
-
- You can set jumbers J17 J14 and J13 to get 936 cyl, 16 heads, 17 sectors/track
- and 130.3Mb (unformatted) capacity. There are also three other possible
- settings which give you smaller capacities.
-
- Mail if you need any more info.
-
- -Martin.
- mph@plasma.apana.org.au
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