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From: draper@cpsin3.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J Draper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: ST-1144A IDE drive info (problem solved)
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Date: 29 May 91 06:08:30 GMT
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>Some specs (as reported by Spinrite II) are:
>track to track time of 1.76 ms
>full stroke time of 32.5 ms
>random seek of 15.88 ms
>rpm of 3622  
>ERLL format
>max tranfer rate of 1,075,200 bytes/sec
>
>In other words, it's fast and cheap (I paid $458 US from California
>Microchip).  I did not get any software with the drive, or a seagate
>installation/info booklet (like you usually get with seagate drives).
>I got a small card with the ASKA-2839 controller card.  It just tells
>you where the hard drive and floppy drive connectors are, and that the
>only jumper on the board is to enable/disable the floppy controller.
>
>I ran the drive through NDD.EXE and Spinrite's surface scan, and both reported
>no errors, so I assume the 128 MB disk space is valid.
>

Is it safe to run Spinrite on an IDE drive? I thought this was a bad
thing to do.


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