a186@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor) (01/02/90)
Dan,
The info below is excerpted from DRVTALL.TXT available from the
Western Digital Mass Storage BBS (714)756-8176. This version dates from
Nov 27/89 so there may be a later version. As a final recourse, you
could call Rodime.
<-Harvey
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RODIME 407-997-0774
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MODEL ST-506 CAP CYC H RWC WPC ENC RATE ACCESS SPT
RO 201 5.25 FH 5 321 2 132 300 M 5 85 MS 17
RO 201E 5.25 FH 11 640 2 264 300 M 5 55 MS 17
RO 202 5.25 HH 10 321 4 132 300 M 5 85 MS 17
RO 202E 5.25 FH 21 640 4 264 300 M 5 55 MS 17
RO 203 5.25 HH 15 321 6 132 300 M 5 85 MS 17
RO 203E 5.25 FH 32 640 6 264 300 M 5 55 MS 17
RO 204 5.25 FH 21 320 8 132 300 M 5 85 MS 17
RO 204E 5.25 FH 43 640 8 264 300 M 5 55 MS 17
RO 251 5.25 HH 5 306 2 307 307 M 5 85 MS 17
RO 252 5.25 HH 11 306 4 64 128 M 5 85 MS 17
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a186@mindlink.UUCPdan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) (01/02/90)
Anyone out there know the drive parameters for a Rodime series RO-200 hard drive ? I think it is a 21Mb. I would like to format it, but I need the drive type number or drive parameters. Please email. Thanks. Cheers, Dan Ts'o 212-570-7671 Dept. Neurobiology dan@rna.rockefeller.edu Rockefeller Univ. ...cmcl2!rna!dan 1230 York Ave. rna!dan@nyu.edu NY, NY 10021 tso@rockefeller.arpa tso@rockvax.bitnet
bl@infovax.UUCP (Bj|rn Larsson) (01/03/90)
In article <940@rna.UUCP> dan@rna.UUCP (Dan Ts'o) writes: > > Anyone out there know the drive parameters for a Rodime series >RO-200 hard drive ? I think it is a 21Mb. I would like to format it, but The following is from the Rodime 200E series drive manual (hope this is the same for 200 series): Drive RO201E RO202E RO203E RO204E Platters: 1 2 3 4 Heads: 2 4 6 8 Cylinders: 640 640 640 640 Formatted capacity (typ): 10.49 20.97 31.45 41.94 per track: 8192 8192 8192 8192 per sector: 256 256 256 256 secs/track: 32 32 32 32 Transfer Rate Mbit/sec 5 5 5 5 Seek, track to track: 8 8 8 8 avg: 55 55 55 55 max: 130 130 130 130 DOS drive type: - 2,25 3 40 Note that the drive types don't fit exactly - all drive types above actually use only 615 cylinders, so you miss 25 cyls... The difference between the alternative types above have to do with at what cylinders write pre-compemsation starts. You'll get a little more bytes per drive than listed above since DOS uses 512 byte sectors (you get 17 sectors / track ). I have been using a RO203E for quite some time on my home machine, and it worked great (better than others brands I've tried). It's bit slow, but what the heck - I got mine free...:-) Hope this helps. Bjorn -- ====================== InfoVox = Speech Technology ======================= Bjorn Larsson, INFOVOX AB : ...seismo!mcvax!kth!sunic!infovax!bl Box 2503 : bl@infovox.se S-171 02 Solna, Sweden : Phone (+46) 8 735 80 90