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From: ianking@tcom.stc.co.uk (Ian King)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Miniscribe 8450 Hardcard - Help!
Keywords: disk
Message-ID: <2340@arran.tcom.stc.co.uk>
Date: 20 Aug 89 22:53:30 GMT
Organization: STC Telecoms, London N11 1HB.
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I bought a cheap secondhand Miniscribe Hardcard at a recent RSGB (Radio
Society of Great Britain) rally. Unfortunately there was no documentation
with it. Its got a Western Digital Controller and the disk is a Miniscribe
8450. It was claimed that this was a 40MB device. Can anybody out there
in Netland tell me such things as the number of heads/cylinders etc etc
as I need to re-format it. It did have two 23MB partions C , D. This struck
me as odd so I copied 25MB across from another PC over a LAN onto D:. The
result was a trashed disk (C & D) rather than just the disk full error
message. I've reformatted it at low level ie g=c800:5 in debug but I had
to guess the "ccc h rrr ppp ee o" paramters asked by the Bios Formatter
program. It is now 32MB only in one partition & seems OK but that capacity
might be due to the guessed parameters.

Thanks in Advance......

Regards...
..........Ian King


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