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From: blgardne@javelin.es.com (Blaine Gardner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Speed of HardFrame/2000 and Quantum Q105S (problem) (longish)
Keywords: HardFrame, Quantum
Message-ID: <1990Nov29.043602.4114@javelin.es.com>
Date: 29 Nov 90 04:36:02 GMT
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Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
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jma@beach.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams) writes:

>  Also, it's using the 1 surface let the SCSI figure
>it out option.  If you can find the surfaces/cylinders/blockspertrack/
>etc etc etc and put it it, there won't be any lag time for translation

Since SCSI only knows blocks, not drive geometry, it makes no difference
at all how many heads and cylinders you use, as long as the total is
correct. Quantum probably knows better than anyone what the ideal
numbers are for their drives, and the 1 head/bazillion cylinders is what
the drive reports.
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