[comp.sys.hp] Query on HP Hard Drives

katcher@netcom.UUCP (Jeff Katcher) (12/09/90)

I'd really appeciate it if someone could identify the two HP
hard disk drives I bought at a sale last week.

#1 is an HP 97544SF which I am pretty sure is a 396MB (unformatted)
SCSI drive.

#2 is an HP 97536F which is a SCSI drive, but I know nothing beyond that.
The list of HP drives I have, shows a 97530S series, at 136, 204, or 408
MB, and a 97540S series at 396-793 MB.

Thanks for any help provided.

Jeff Katcher


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gz@pta.oz.au (Electric Blue) (12/10/90)

In article <18382@netcom.UUCP>, katcher@netcom.UUCP (Jeff Katcher) writes:
> I'd really appeciate it if someone could identify the two HP
> hard disk drives I bought at a sale last week.
> 
> #1 is an HP 97544SF which I am pretty sure is a 396MB (unformatted)
> SCSI drive.
> 
> #2 is an HP 97536F which is a SCSI drive, but I know nothing beyond that.
> The list of HP drives I have, shows a 97530S series, at 136, 204, or 408
> MB, and a 97540S series at 396-793 MB.

		The HP97536 drive is physically 1663 cylinders in size,
	with physical cylinder 776, track 0 reserved for the log track,
	physical cylinders 776 (except for track 0) to 794 used for
	sector sparing, and physical cylinder 795 is the native CE
	cylinder (which is unaccesible to the user). The user data area
	is 1643 cylinders in size. One of the user data cylinders is
	reserved, and another is the user CE cylinder.
		Also note that the disk contains 64, 256-byte sectors
	per track.

		The HP97544 has 1447 cylinders, 8 heads and 14(?) sectors.



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alien@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Tom von Alten) (12/12/90)

HP 97544SF = 4 platter "Coyote 2", 397M unformatted, 332M formatted
		SCSI Single-ended

HP 97536F = 6 platter "Coyote 1",  408M unformatted, 323M formatted
		SCSI Single-ended
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                        Hewlett-Packard Disk Mechanisms Division
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