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- From: mikey@db.erau.edu (Mike P. Simon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: CMOS meanings
- Date: 9 Nov 1992 16:49:13 -0500
- Organization: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, FL USA
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- jepace@chimi.engr.ucdavis.edu (Logjam) writes:
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- >I recently lost my CMOS settings, and I was wondering what the
- >following hard drive settings mean:
- >LZone, and WPcom. WPcom says it is either 0 or 65535 (or some
- >number like that.)
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- LZone is Landing Zone. It has something to do with where the drive heads go
- when they park (somebody correct me if I'm way off base), and WPcom is where
- Write Precompensation should begin. Both of these are track numbers. Write
- Precomp is not used anymore on modern drives, and if your drive manual doesn't
- mention it, set it to your number of tracks +1. Ditto for LZ. That's my
- experience, anyway...
-
- -Mike
- mikey@db.erau.edu
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