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Article #13547Re: Need help identifying minscribe drive
From: Dave McCrady
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 04:46
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 04:46
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ollken@plains.NoDak.edu (Scott Wilken) writes: - Im wondering if, since it was originally setup when he bought it 4 years - ago under dos3.3, if the CMOS info isnt incorrect. - - The drive is a miniscribe with the following markings on the bottom - - TDA: - ----------------------- - MODEL |HDA|PCBA|UNIQUE - ----------------------- - 3650 |01c| 01E| 01B - ----------------------- - UPLEVEL| | | - - Can someone tell me what the proper drive type to chose for this drive? - I have NO info on it (IE how many megabytes it is supposed to be, if its - MFM/RLL, etc) The computer he uses it in doesnt have configurable drive - types in its CMOS setup, so im stuck using the standard types.. - It's probably type 40 or 44. The drive has 820 cylinders and 6 heads. It's MFM (42MB) altho mine works fine formatted RLL (63Mb) Dave McCrady davem@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!gumby!destroyer!ubc-cs!unixg.ubc.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!ersys!davem From: davem@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Dave McCrady) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Subject: Re: Need help identifying minscribe drive Message-ID: <N4yoRB2w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 92 22:46:10 MDT References: <20694@plains.NoDak.edu> Organization: Edmonton Remote Systems #2, Edmonton, AB, Canada Lines: 24