drive info needed

From: Russ Blakeman <rhblake_at_bbtel.com>
Date: Mon Mar 23 18:40:54 1998

Kai Kaltenbach wrote:

> According to my ancient HD reference textfile, there's a 93028-A and -AD.
> The -AD is an IDE drive and the -A is an ST506 RLL drive. Specs are
> identical, 19.86 MB, 69ms, 3.5" HH, 2/782/26 geometry.

Really ancient I guess, and possibly incorrect. They're 21 mb, all IDE 40 pin
interface. The -A is a faster IDE AT, the -AD is a 3:1 (slower) IDE AT and
the -X is an IDE XT. The access time is 70 ms for all three. The heads are 2
and the cylinders 782 (as above) but the sectors per track are 27, not 26
(typo??). The landing zone is 783 (not an auto parker/auto locker) and it's a
3.5" HH case. There is NO translation given for the drive specs so the
782/2/27 is what should be used. Since it's an IDE there should NOT be a low
level format performed on the drive.

The reference for TheRef that was given is a great reference but these specs
came from the most recent Pocket PCRef by Sequoia Publishing. I've always
found these to be extremely accurate.

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