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From: usenet@cps3xx.UUCP (Usenet file owner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith.z100
Subject: Re: Z-217 problems
Keywords: hard disk
Message-ID: <3055@cps3xx.UUCP>
Date: 19 May 89 19:55:53 GMT
References: <799@unocss.UUCP>
Reply-To: urban@frith.UUCP (Mark Urban-Lurain)
Organization: Engineering, Michigan State University, E. Lansing
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In article <799@unocss.UUCP> mlewis@unocss.UUCP (Marcus S. Lewis) writes:
>While I'm on the subject, what drives can I just "plug and go" on this
>controller?  I have a Miniscribe 12 MB drive that I spend half my time
>deleting from and half the rest compressing stuff.

I'm not at home (where my trusty 100 is), so I'm not sure if I have
the same controller (it's the stock controller circa 85 or 86).  However,
I did replace the factory 10 meg disk with a Seagate 4038.  The only
tricks were:
	1)  The drive came out of the box jumpered as drive 1, not
		drive 0 (this took a while to discover).
	2)  I had to run PREP with the /K switch, even though the
		drive was *supposed* to be < 32 meg.         
	3)  I had to specify the drive parameters when running 
		PREP.  I *believe* that these came with the drive.
		Most manufactures will provide them if you call.
Other than that, it's worked fine.  Faster than blazes, as this is
an 'AT' drive with 28 ms access time.

Glad to see that there are still 100 users out there!!!

Mark Urban-Lurain
urban@cpswh.cps.msu.edu