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From: jons@islenet.UUCP (Jonathan Spangler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Hard Disk Help
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Date: Sat, 10-Oct-87 22:56:53 EDT
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In article <478@pecnos.UUCP> wcz@pecnos.UUCP writes:
>Has anyone successfully added a Seagate ST251 40 Meg. Hard Disk to a
>AT&T 6300 PLUS?
>
>The PLUS normally uses a CDC WREN II 40 Meg. drive but the Seagate is
>substantially less expensive.

If you can do a low level format and specifiy non-standard parameters, 
all you really need to know are number of heads and cylinders of the 
respective drive. The ST251 has 6 heads and 820 cylinders. Precomp and
Reduced write cylinder are "none".

I remember trying to format an ST251 in a Sperry and had similar problems
until I used a hard disk utility called "Disk Manager" from Ontrack Systems.

Aloha,

Jonathan Spangler
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