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From: mike@ronin.cc.umich.edu (Michael Nowak)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Technical Information on the MiniScribe 3650
Keywords: miniscribe 3650 technical info
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Date: 26 Dec 87 05:12:32 GMT
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Reply-To: mike@ronin.cc.umich.edu (Michael Nowak)
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I recently purchased a MiniScribe 3650, a Western Digital Controller (IBM),
and an external box.  I put it all together and with some help from the
comp.sys.ibm.pc people, I found out how to do a low level format of the drive.
Unfortunately, I did not get a spec sheet with the drive so I can't do the
format properly.  When I use the default info, I get a 20M drive!  I need
to know the following to format it properly:

	Total number of cylinders
	Total number of heads
	Write Precomp Cylinder
	Starting reduced write cylinder
	Max correctable error burst length
	CCB option byte			 

If anyone has the information, I would really appreciate having it too!

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