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From: wlr@beach.cis.ufl.edu (William Ricker)
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Subject: HELP HELP! Miniscribe 3085
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Date: 15 Oct 89 07:24:10 GMT
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I've found that this drive has 1170 cylinders and fdisk doesn't seem
to like it.  So currently I've set the number of cylinders to 1024, which
means I'm only getting 62 of the 71 meg of the drive :<<<.  I'm also
really disappointed at the performance. My previous drive was a
Seagate 4051 39ms drive. This drive was advertised as a 22ms (many
other adds claimed it to be 17/18ms) drive, but the performance I'm
getting seems to be twice as slow as my old drive :(((. Is this drive
really such a pig? I believe the drive parameters are 1170 cylinders,
7 heads, 1170 landing zone, -1 write precomp. Can any one help me
please?

Thanks in advance
bill
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Bill Ricker                                wlr@vlsi2.ee.ufl.edu
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