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From: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: hard disk drive parameters request
Keywords: 2090
Message-ID: <268@estinc.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 90 01:11:23 GMT
References: <36464@mips.mips.COM> <1117@dialogic.UUCP>
Reply-To: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: Enhanced Software Technologies, Tempe, AZ
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In article <1117@dialogic.UUCP> gerry@pencilbox.UUCP (Gerry Lachac) writes:
>I can sort of do better than that.  This month's Computer Shopper
>lists a bunch of drives with all that information.  Worth picking up
>if you're planning on looking for hard drives.  They seem to have
>every hard drive currently available. (of course, looks can be
>deceiving :-)

Yes, looks are deceiving.  Have you actually tried to use the tables?  :-)

For example, I wanted to find out the number of sectors on a Quantum 105S,
which is listed on page 145.  Lets see, number of cylinders is ... yes, there
it is, 1019.  Number of heads (tracks) per cylinder is ... yes, there it
is, 6.  Number of sectors per track is ... well, lets look again ... ack! ..
not listed!  Of course there is such useful info as the density in bpi, and
the tracks per drive, which should just be the number of tracks times the
number of heads.  :-(

-Fred
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