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From: feustel@well.sf.ca.us (David Alan Feustel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: HPFS
Message-ID: <16059@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: 8 Feb 90 23:37:56 GMT
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Steve.Lesner@f261.n141.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Steve Lesner) writes:

>For you all that want to use > 1024 cylinders, do buy a WD-1007A or any other 
>controller than supports low level formatting in Debug via translation.

Be aware that the WD-1007a works only with 10 megabit/second ESDI
drives and then only with drives having 34 or fewer sectors/track i
The WD-1007V-SEx works with 15 megabit/second drives having up to
53(4?) sectors/track. The v version has an Intel 188 and a 32k cache.