wiriyan@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Tjipta Wiriyan) (03/16/88)
I've just bought a CMS SD60, and so far I have no problems. However,
I have a few questions:
1. I remembered a few people mentioned that it comes preformatted with 1-3
interleaf. However, mine came preformatted with 1-5 interleaf, and the
default (which according to the manual is the optimal) interleaf is 1-5
for both Plus and SE, and 1-3 for MacII. Is the software that came with
my hard disk an older version? It seems that its version is v3.2m, is
this an old version?
2. The formatted capacity of SD60 is supposedly 62.40MB. Using "Show Volume
Data" option, the total physical blocks is shown to be 126784. Now,
62.40MB == 62.40 * 1024 * 2 == 127995 blocks. What happens to the other
1011 blocks (about 505 KB--which is quite large)?
3. The manual mentioned that there are 8 dip switches. However, it seems
that I can't found those dip switches on the backside of the cabinet.
Instead, there are three jumpers (they look like jumper to me) near the
fan. Are those, which seem like jumper to me, the dip switches mentioned
in the manual?
Thanks in advance.
Tjipta Wiriyan
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BITNET: wiriyan@CRNLCSlarryha@tekig5.TEK.COM (Larry Hattery) (03/22/88)
In article <2067@svax.cs.cornell.edu> wiriyan@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Tjipta Wiriyan) writes: > >1. I remembered a few people mentioned that it comes preformatted with 1-3 > interleaf. However, mine came preformatted with 1-5 interleaf, and the > default (which according to the manual is the optimal) interleaf is 1-5 > for both Plus and SE, and 1-3 for MacII. Is the software that came with > my hard disk an older version? It seems that its version is v3.2m, is > this an old version? I've tested mine out and found it to work quite well at 4:1 interleaf but when I tried 3:1 it started getting worse. My test was to format the drive, copy a complete system folder onto the disk ~586k then to duplicate the folder. At 5:1 it took ~20s, at 4:1 it took ~18s, at 3:1 it took ~23s. DiskTimer results show ~128, ~128, and ~16, about 1/2 the speed of a DataFrame XP, not bad for less than 1/2 the price. I've been using mine for over a week this way with no problems and it seems to perform quite well. I bought mine from MacLand (800)333-3353 for $801 including COD delivery in 2 days, and I got a new mouse pad. Their prices are going up to ~$850 soon so you better hurry. I also called Hardware House who had the same price, but they didn't have COD. -- ======> Disclaimer??? Disclaimer!!! -- I don't need no stinkin disclaimer!!! Larry Hattery larryha@tekig5@tektronix