Formatting ST-251 on 3b1

Thad P Floryan thad at cup.portal.com
Fri Jun 15 16:34:20 AEST 1990


An ST-251 drive has 6 heads, 820 cylinders, and 17 sectors per track with
the "standard" 512-byte sectors.  It's an "ST-506", MFM drive, does NOT
require any write precomp, and auto-parks on powerdown (though you may
notice they don't always spin back up upon re-application of power! :-)

Thad Floryan [ thad at cup.portal.com (OR)  ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]



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