skl@van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam) (09/19/88)
Would anyone like to share their experience in using the Adaptec ACB-2072
controller with a Seagate ST-277 (60 Meg, RLL) disk? If you have something
to say about this setup, I would like to hear from you.
I have found that the Adaptec controller only gives 25 sectors per track
instead of the usual 26. Is there any way around this? There is a set
"high-performance jumpers" on the board, but the only documentation I got
with it, the ACB-2072 Installation Guide, doesn't give a lot of details
on what they do. Is more detailed documentation on this controller
available from Adaptec?
On the ST-277, the one-sector-per-track saving could come out to about
2.5 Meg, which would be enough to hold another day of news for a full-feed.
Please reply by e-mail if possible, if I get any informative replies, I
will post a summary later. If you do post a reply, please also e-mail
me a copy of it, as net.black-holes do exist and I am sure we won't
receive every article. (I do read these newsgroups myself.)
Thanks in advance.
...Sam
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