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From: jmurray@cray-ymp.acm.stuorg.vt.edu (John Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Need geometry for ST-43400N disktab
Date: 18 Jan 1996 14:35:29 GMT
Organization: ACM Student Machine
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In article <4dko97$au2@iii2.iii.net>,
Craig Shrimpton <craigs@iii2.iii.net> wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>Does anyone have a good geomtry for this drive?  Seagate is very 
>secretive about its drive metrics.  The geometry I was able to figure out 
>by algebra (uggh!) wastes about 65MB of the disk.
>
>This is what I have, maybe someone has something better:
>
>ns#99:nt#21:nc#2738:rm#5400:su#5688447
>
>Thanks,
>
>Craig
>
>
seagate secretive? I just found the geometry info for an old 42 mb drive
last night on thier web site:

http://www.seagate.com/index.html
 
Goto the Tech Supprot area and there should be info on your drive,
Specifications, Install Guides(pdf format), Tech Specs.

Hope this helps 

 


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