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From: ppa@col.hp.com (Paul Austgen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Help!
Message-ID: <16110013@col.hp.com>
Date: 5 Jun 91 15:37:33 GMT
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> / col:comp.sys.ibm.pc / barnett@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Karey Barnett) /  5:52 pm  Jun  4, 1991 /
> In article <16110012@col.hp.com> ppa@col.hp.com (Paul Austgen) writes:
> >A type 6 has no precomp, which I think is the same as the last
> >track, essentially.  It has 20 Mb capacity unless RLL, which
> >would be 26 sectors per track.
> >
>   I might be able to help, but I don't know what the problem is.  For
>   example, what do you mean by "A type 6 has no precomp...".
>

I didn't post the original basenote.  What I was trying to say
was that his disk sounds like a type 6 based on all of his
description, except that the poster gave a track precomp number
corresponding to the last track.  I believe that this is
equivalent to no compensation (or maybe it was vice-versa, but
anyway, it sounds like a type 6).

Paul