Re: Miniscribe 3650 Hard Drive

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From: Chris Watkins
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 1991 11:45

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Well, I have a 3650 drive, running on a perstor card. <basicly RLL only 31 spt>
It's worked for almost 3 years now.. If the drive formats with a standard MFM
hd controller & works (wich is probably what the company did) (@42meg)
but starts to screw up when running 65 megs youve spotted your problem
<i suspect this is it> 
Some drive just Can't handle having 26 or 31 sectors per track they just are notaligned right, <your drive is a hair off>
I have been able to prolong this problem with another 3650, Low level it with
a MFM controller about 10 times. Then It should work better, but only for awhile.


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From: watkins@sapphire.idbsu.edu (Chris Watkins)
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Subject: Re: Miniscribe 3650 Hard Drive
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