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- From: jwoods@cmptrc.lonestar.org (Jeff Woods)
- Subject: Re: Conner 30104 Question
- Message-ID: <BxCAvr.JL2@cmptrc.lonestar.org>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 09:40:39 GMT
- References: <1992Nov4.235054.1@sara.cc.utu.fi>
- Organization: CompuTrac Inc., Richardson TX
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- In article <1992Nov4.235054.1@sara.cc.utu.fi> ipe@sara.cc.utu.fi writes:
- |I have a Conner's hd model 30104 which manual claims to be 120MBytes drive but
- |I am able to make it only to the capacity of 104 MBytes. That is the same as
- |Conner's model 3104. Am I reading this hd's label somehow wrong or what?
- |Isn't my hd really 120 drive but 104 Mb's drive? I am able to make the
- |partitioning following the 30104's values but when I try to format the drive
- |there occurs seek failures. What's wrong?
-
- According to a document from Conner dated 08/91, the geometries are:
- CP3104: 8 hd, 776 cyl, 33 sect @ 512 bytes/sector = 104,890,368 bytes
- CP30104: 8 hd, 762 cyl, 33 sect @ 512 bytes/sector = 102,998,016 bytes
-
- I suspect that both drives are about 120 meg unformatted (whatever that means
- or is good for) and as you can see, just over 100 meg formatted.
-
- Both have "Universal Translate" which means "Select a drive type that is close
- to but does not exceed the megabyte capacity of the drive. The drive will
- translate to the megabyte capacity you have selected."
-
- Notable: "Conner drives are low level formatted at the factory. It is only
- necessary to run SETUP, FDISK, and DOS FORMAT."
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