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Subject: Re: Hitachi Hard Drive Question
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Date: 16 Feb 90 16:39:16 GMT
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In article <2249@uwm.edu> peter@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Peter J Diaz de Leon) writes:
>        I just received an Hitachi DK511-5 full height hard drive.
>        Can anyone give me more details on it, like
>        the number of heads and cylinders?
>
>                                Thanks
>                                Peter
>
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I found the info your looking for in a BBS listing of drive specs.
I don't know if its accurate but this is what I have:
Heads = 7
Cylinders = 699
Milliseconds = 26
Write Precomp. starts at 300

If someone finds this not to be accurate please post.