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From: klf1305@chensun1.tamu.edu (Kelly L. Fergason)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Microscience HD - Will it work?
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Date: 31 Jan 91 13:42:58 GMT
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In article <13941@encore.Encore.COM> schwalbe@pinocchio.UUCP (Jim Schwalbe) writes:
>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.
>

	We have several of these, 120 MB Microscience, with the DTC
controller.  All Gateway 2000 machines.  We also have the AMI Bios.  
The documentation that comes makes no mention of what the drive type
should be, but calls to Gateway determined that it is type 1.  I have
the DTC7287 manual here, if you would like specifics just email back
to me.  The bios is on the controller board, and formats the hard
disk just fine.

Kelly Fergason
klf1305@sigma.tamu.edu