Re: Harddisk <-> Dos

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From: Mr. Martin Leung
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 12:26

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Richard Braeken (buex93d@rwa.urc.tue.nl) wrote:

: While I was walking through the other types I found that type 47 is
: the only type whose WPcom and LZone has the value 0.

: Where do WPcom and LZone stand for? And do they have the right value?

WPcom stands for Write precompensation while LZone stands for Landing
Zone, the track where the head should go upon power down.  This 2
parms are only useful to ST412/506 Harddisk.  Yours are probably a
AT-bus type HD which ignores them.


: I ask this because I had some problems with pctools. While counting the
: directories he didn't found a sector. I didn't have this problem when I
: used DS version 3.3 insteed of version 6.0, which I use now.

Sorry , no idea.

Rgds.

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