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From: bwbecker@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Byron Weber Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Replacing a Seagate ST251 drive with ST171 -- formating
Message-ID: <1990May3.160936.13902@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 3 May 90 16:09:36 GMT
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Organization: University of Waterloo
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The drive in my CMS hard disk gave out recently.  It was a 40M
Seagate ST251.  I replaced it with a ST171, a 49M, 28ms drive.
I used the CMS formatting utility which came with the original
drive and everything works.

QUESTION:  Did the old utility get the interleave factor and whatever
other parameters there may be correct for optimum performance? I
believe the only relevent differences are the size (40M vs 46M, 
formatted) and speed (38ms vs 28ms).

Thanks for any help.

Byron Weber Becker
bwbecker@watdragon.waterloo.edu