Hard Disk Question

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From: Vince Demarco
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1990 21:46

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Hello

A friend of mine has a Western Digital 95044 Hard drive, it's a 40 Meg
possibly IDE (only one long card edge on the back, not the customary two)
and he needs to find out the drive parameters for it.  He's got a
non-standard AT 1:1 controller for it as well and has been using it quite
successfully for the last month with a Phoenix BIOS drive # of 17 
(977 cyl, 5 heads, wr-precomp 300 etc)..  His problem is that ECC does not
seem to work (read and write long BIOS commands give an error) and he
wants to know if this is because he doesn't know the correct drive parms or
because his controller doesn't support this feature.


Please post your replies here and I'll relay them to him.
(Don't email, unless you know that it will work, this path bounces more
mail.....)


Thanks

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From: demarco@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Vince Demarco)
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Subject: Hard Disk Question
Summary: WD 95044 Hard Drive
Keywords: Western Digital
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Date: 12 Feb 90 21:46:07 GMT
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