Re: MFM Harddisc size

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From: gaspar
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:05

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In article <1992Nov17.105656.22343@csd.uwe.ac.uk>, r_voisey@csd.uwe.ac.uk (R Voisey) writes:
> In article <1992Nov16.103443.42555@urz.unibas.ch> gaspar@urz.unibas.ch writes:
>>As far as I can remember, the biggest harddisc size you could use with a
>>Archimedes 410/1 was around 50 Meg. under RISC OS 2.
> 
> You can use most drives up to around 80Megs quite easily, though for drives
> bigger than 50Megs you have to swap a link (to change sector size I think).
                               / ^^^^^^^^^^^
Could someone tell me what this means? 
I bought a second hand 80Meg Harddisk quite cheap. The problem is that it has
9 heads and when I enter that parameter I get a message that I might! 
swap link 3 or something like that.
I'd be very happy if someone could enlighten me on that subject.


> Cheers
> 
> Bob
> -- 
>   Robert J. Voisey  :  r_voisey@csd.uwe.ac.uk
>          -- Probug Software Developments --
> 162 Staplehill Rd, Fishponds, Bristol, Avon, England
-- 

THanks
          laci
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*             Laci Gaspar, University Basel, Switzerland                      *
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