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From: schwalbe@pinocchio.Encore.COM (Jim Schwalbe)
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Subject: Re: Microscience HD - Will it work?
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Date: 29 Jan 91 17:43:44 GMT
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In article <1991Jan27.183610.23269@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> tmkk@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu 
(Scott Coleman) writes:
>I have an opportunity to purchase a 120Mb HD made by Microscience. It's an
>RLL drive (comes with a DTC RLL 1:1 controller). Glancing through the 
>documentation for my '386, however, reveals no disk drive types in the (Award)
>BIOS with 26 sector tracks (all are 17 sector). At this point it is unknown

This is the exact same drive that I have.  Although I have the AMI BIOS, I
believe that the Award works the same way with respect to this.  You want to
select the last drive option (I think it's type 47 but I'm not certain).  When
you do, it will allow you to configure the number of sectors, platters, etc.
If you didn`t get this information with your drive, I can dig it up for you.
BTW, do *NOT* do a low level format of the drive.  It comes preformatted and
if you accidentally do, you need a special SW package (that costs around $60)
to correct the mistake.

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