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Article #1389Re: Disk Drive Purchase?
From: exuptr
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 17:14
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 1992 17:14
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In article <Bu34nA.3FB.2@cs.cmu.edu> ralf+@cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown) writes:
>The more immediate limit to IDE (and ESDI) is likely to be the size of the
>drive. If (as I suspect), the WD-1003 only permits 16 heads, then the
>limit on IDE is 504 MB (1024 cylinders * 16 heads * 63 sectors/track); even
>if a full 64 heads are available, the limit is less than 2GB--a size which
>is already readily available even if not yet cheap ($3000+) in SCSI
>versions.
What's the WD-1003 got to do with it? I'm using an IDE right now with 32
heads defined, and 48 spt.
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