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From: norm@bartek1.uucp (Norm Bartek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Maxtor and Miniscribe drive query
Keywords: specs needed  1024 or 1224 on XT 2190
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Date: 8 Jan 90 00:46:06 GMT
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In article <1342@mitisft.Convergent.COM> burton@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Philip Burton) writes:
>I would like the net's help to get specs on these drives:
>
>Maxtor 2190.  Is this 1024 or 1224 cyliners?
>
>Supposedly, a Maxtor 1140 is just a 2190 that has been tested to "only" 918
>cylinders.  Does anyone run an 1140 to 1024 (1224 ???) cylinders?
>
>Comments?
>
>Phil Burton

We have been running a MAXTOR 1140 formatted RLL as 1024 cylinders and 26
sectors/track on a Western Digital WD1006V-SR2 and an Adaptec 2372B. The
WD controller seems to provide better performance from what we've seen and
costs less also. From prior postings on the net, this seems to be a common
use of 1140 drives. By the way, this combo provides about 200MB on an 1140
and about 400KB/sec transfer rates according to some of the disk diags.

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