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Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center
Date: Wednesday, 12 Jun 1991 08:32:24 EDT
From: <H90SI@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Message-ID: <91163.083224H90SI@CUNYVM.BITNET>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: 26 kb/s HD transfer rate?
Distribution: usa

Hi.
 Recently I encountered interesting problem with a hard drive. My brother
has 286 clone. Few days ago I run Norton's sysinfo on his machine and found
that HD has 26 kbytes/s transfer rate. Closer inspection of machine showed
that ut has ST251 MFM hard drive and WD1002A-27X controller. CMOS entry
for a hard drive type is <NONE>(machine has AWARD BIOS). If I put correct
setting there, during reboot it says:Error initializing HD controller 0.
Now fun part begins. The specs for ST251 say that it has 820 cyls, 6 heads
and 17 s/track. It amounts to 42Mb. But all testing programs report that
HD has 1024 cyls(52Mb). And a lot of cyls above 820 are used by files!!!
Actually HD is almost full.
If you know anything about this problem, please reply.

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