WD Chip Info

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Mon May 10 22:29:56 1999

> WD2010B - This is the HDC chip, similar to the 1010. Does
I wrote:
> Drop-in replacement for the 1010, with ECC. Also can support >1024
> cylinders, helpful with the Maxtor XT1140 and Maxtor XT2190 disk drives

Minor clarification: the chip is a drop in replacement, but if you do that,
I think the drive needs to be reformatted, since the 1010 only uses a CRC
rather then the longer ECC code.
Received on Mon May 10 1999 - 22:29:56 BST