grossman@starfleet.bbn.com.bbn.com (Martin Grossman) (03/07/91)
1) please respond only via email to grossman@bbn.com 2) Here's the hardware questions I have in my new 80386DX the following IDE drive. ST1144AT ROM Ver 5.0 RAM Ver 5.5 CYL=1021 HEAD=7 SEC= 44/36/30 512bytes/sec 1) anything special in these drives that their is a version on the RAM? 2) I read the BYTE article on IDE drives and fully understand it...SO my drive has three zones...outer tracks have 44 sectors and inner have 30 BUT!!!! how many cylinders for each of the three zones? (ie does anyone have the full spec sheets?) I only have 1 sheet that sais the above. 3) the cmos ram in the system is set up on #47 (user defined one) and is set to cyl=1001 head=15 sec=17 noprecomp and no reduced write. 4) I understand why its set to 15 heads to take care of all them sectors BUT...why only setup for 1001 cyl?? are the rest of the cyl all reserved for bad sector replacement (so the drive looks perfect)? Isn't that a lot of space for replacements? Here at work (on the C/70) we set asside 508 replacement sectors for a 340MB drive!!! And that always been plenty!!! 3) Whats the difference (besides price) between Quaterdeck QEMM386 and 386MAX (don't remember the Co.)