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From: hv@uwasa.fi (Harri Valkama LAKE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Need hard disk specs Miniscribe HH725B
Keywords: hard disk miniscribe
Message-ID: <1990Sep29.115823.4565@uwasa.fi>
Date: 29 Sep 90 11:58:23 GMT
References: <1000@nlsun1.oracle.nl>
Organization: University of Vaasa
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In article <1000@nlsun1.oracle.nl> hbergh@oracle.nl (Herbert van den Bergh) writes:
>I'm looking for the specs of my Miniscribe HH 725 B hard disk.
>It used to be built into a PC/XT, formatted as a 20Mb MFM drive.
>I now want to use it with an Atari ST, connected to an RLL controller.
>I need to know the following:
>	# of cylinders
>	# of heads
>	reduced write cylinder
>	write precomp cylinder
>	landing zone
>	seek rate

I looked from THEREF40.ZIP (available for anon ftp from
(chyde.)uwasa.fi (128.214.12.3) in pc/doc dir; this is a
wonderful piece of Hard Disk information) and found the
following info (sorry for the broken lines):
 MANUFACTURER   MODEL NUMBER   WTH. HGT. UNFORMAT FORMATED
CYLS COMP TK PL HD AC   FACE   METHOD  TPI P? ACC   RATE
MTBF   USE
D        COMMENTS
-----------------------------------------------------------
MICROSCIENCE HH-725           5.25 HALF   25.0MB   21.0MB
612      17  2  4    ST412   MFM       0     99mS  5.0M
b


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