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Article #6933Re: Geometry information for old Tandon drive needed!
From: Koos van den Hout
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 07:45
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 07:45
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> This is a longshot, but here goes: I have an old Tandon
>hard disk. It's a 5" form factor, full height, MFM, 30Mb
>(actually formats out to about 33Mb, I believe) capacity.
> Does anyone recognize this drive ? Can you tell me the
>geometry ?
Well your longshot works... (or at least seams to work). According to
'TheRef41' there's only one Tandon that has specifications that look like this
one, and they are :
Tandon
Type TM703AT
5,25" FH
733 cylinders
3 platters
5 heads
17 sec/track
31.0 Mb formatted (=32505856 bytes if Mb=2**20)
ST412 interface
MFM encoding
5.0 Mb transfer/sec
40mS avg. seek.
Unless you have formatted an MFM disk with an RLL controller this is the only
harddisk that's close.
I hope this is the correct information.
Grtx. KH
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