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From: dvc@cbnewsb.cb.att.com (david.a.vancleef)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Western Digital WD1002A-27X RLL controller jumpers
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.150938.5003@cbfsb.att.com>
Date: 28 Jun 91 15:09:38 GMT
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In article <9106280040.AA11913@ray.com> paulcn@idsvax.ids.com (Paul Coen) writes:
>I have a rather boring WD1002A-27X hard drive controller card (8-bit, 
>supports 2 RLL drives, you know the card).
>
>I have two questions:
>
>1)  Why did WD bother?  Just what is the point of effectivly lying to the 
>    operating system about drive characteristics in this case? 
>
To handle ancient software that refuses to believe that any hard drive
will ever have anything other than 17 sectors per track.

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