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m_rheau@pavo.concordia.ca writes:

>I'm posting this message for a friend who has the following
>problem (apologies if this is not the most appropriate usergroup):

>He bought a second-hand hard drive, a Seagate ST-1102A.
>He doesn't know how to configure the hard drive in setup.
>He would like to know cylinders, etc, and even how many megs
>so he doesn't configure it incorrectly.  Does someone out there
>have this model's specs?

	If your friend has access to a FAX machine, have him call SeaFAX
	(Seagate Telephone Technical Support Automated FAX Information
	System) at (408) 438-2620 and request document # 11025.  The call
	must be performed from a touch-tone phone.

	If your friend hasn't access to a FAX, have him call the Seagate
	prerecorded technical information line at (408) 438-8222.  I don't
	recall what information to request, but it would be along the lines
	of technical information for the drive.

>A question of my own: Would configuring it incorrectly be damaging
>in any way to the disk?

	Perhaps.  The drive physically has 965 cylinders and 5 R/W heads,
	but the IDE circuitry considers any cyl/hd/sector information passed
	to it to be the _logical_ cyl/hd/sector rather than the actual
	physical cyl/hd/sector.  Calling either of the two numbers mentioned
	previously will get your friend the correct _logical_ parameters
	needed to use the drive.

>Thanks in advance for any help

	You're welcome.


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