foss@iris.ucdavis.edu (Jim Alves-Foss) (07/25/89)
Hello, I am looking to purchase a large (for me) capacity harddrive and I need some advise. A friend of mine has taken a (Maxtor?) drive and using an RLL controller and Disk Manager, got it up to 117Mb. This is in the ball park for what I am looking for. Any advise on good ~80Mb drives that can be RLL'd to around 120Mb, or any reasonably priced ~120Mb drives around? Are there disk size limitations for the RLL controllers? Thanks in advance, -Jim Alves-Foss (foss@iris.ucdavis.edu) /* Of course these are MY opinions */
chris@zorin.UUCP (Christopher Nielsen) (07/27/89)
In article <4950@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>, foss@iris.ucdavis.edu (Jim Alves-Foss) writes: > Hello, > I am looking to purchase a large (for me) capacity harddrive and I need > some advise. A friend of mine has taken a (Maxtor?) drive and using an RLL > controller and Disk Manager, got it up to 117Mb. This is in the ball park > for what I am looking for. An associate is using Maxtor 2190 drives, which are 190 meg (unformatted) or 160 meg formatted, along with Speedstore (Award) Bios chips. These chips even have a setup menu accessed by CNTL-ALT-ESC. In addition, they use type 25 (in these ROMS) which support the 1224 cylinder drives. they have other hi capacity types also. Of course, DOS only sees 33 meg partitions, but this application uses a special partition which is independant of DOS. I've even seen this arrangement work with Microport unix. Christopher A. Nielsen ////////////////// Zorin Data Systems, Inc //// P.O. Box 5669 Santa Monica, CA 90405-0669 //// (213) 399-3804 x 45 //// UUCP: randvax!zorin!info //// <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Zorin... "The Future On-Line" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> < Online Product Information and other services - Call or write for free demo >