Miniscribe Hard Disk

From: Neil McNeight <mcneight_at_umich.edu>
Date: Fri Nov 28 13:41:22 1997

On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Sergio Izquierdo Garcia wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> One of my recent finds is a Nixdorf 8810 (a PC/XT). It has one hard disk
> drive, and it doesn?t start. It?s a Miniscribe Model 3212.
>
> Does anybody know its physical parameters (heads, cylinders, sectors)?

From "Upgrading and Repairing PC's, 2nd Edition":

Miniscribe 3212
Capacity: 10.7 Mb
Cylinders: 612
Heads: 2
Sectors/track: 17
Write Precomp: 128
Landing Zone: 656

-Neil

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