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Re: Info on Maxtor XT-2190 Hard drive needed PLEASE!

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From: ersys!davem
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 1990 23:37
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bolton@cg-atla.UUCP (Lee Bolton) writes:
> 	I've been given the use of an old drive, of which
> 	neither the owner nor I have any documents at all.
> 
> 	Could some kind soul mail or post the following? REAL SOON???
> 
> 	A Maxtor model XT 2190 2:
> 
> 		Unformatted Capacity:
> 		# Cylinders:
> 		# heads:
> 		# sectors:
> 		reduced Write Cylinder:
> 		Write Pre-comp cylinder:
> 		spin-up delay:
> 		spin-up draw:
> 
> 	BTW. This beast seems to draw a LOT of power spinning up.
> 	so much so that the other hard drive chokes on occasion.
> 	I don't have much experience with little power supplies (200w),
> 	But this just don't seem right. Is it?
> -- 
The XT 2090 is an MFM drive with the following parmaters:
  Formatted capacity:  150 Mb
  Cylinders:           1224
  Heads                15
  SPT                  17
  Reduce Write         1225
  Write Precomp        1225
  Transfer rate        5 megabits/second
  Access               30 ms
  I have no information on the power draw.
  Hope this helps


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Subject: Re: Info on Maxtor XT-2190 Hard drive needed PLEASE!
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