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- From: gaspar@urz.unibas.ch
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: Re: MFM Harddisc size
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.180524.42564@urz.unibas.ch>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 18:05:24 MET
- References: <1992Nov16.103443.42555@urz.unibas.ch> <1992Nov17.105656.22343@csd.uwe.ac.uk>
- Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland
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- In article <1992Nov17.105656.22343@csd.uwe.ac.uk>, r_voisey@csd.uwe.ac.uk (R Voisey) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov16.103443.42555@urz.unibas.ch> gaspar@urz.unibas.ch writes:
- >>As far as I can remember, the biggest harddisc size you could use with a
- >>Archimedes 410/1 was around 50 Meg. under RISC OS 2.
- >
- > You can use most drives up to around 80Megs quite easily, though for drives
- > bigger than 50Megs you have to swap a link (to change sector size I think).
- / ^^^^^^^^^^^
- Could someone tell me what this means?
- I bought a second hand 80Meg Harddisk quite cheap. The problem is that it has
- 9 heads and when I enter that parameter I get a message that I might!
- swap link 3 or something like that.
- I'd be very happy if someone could enlighten me on that subject.
-
-
- > Cheers
- >
- > Bob
- > --
- > Robert J. Voisey : r_voisey@csd.uwe.ac.uk
- > -- Probug Software Developments --
- > 162 Staplehill Rd, Fishponds, Bristol, Avon, England
- --
-
- THanks
- laci
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- * Laci Gaspar, University Basel, Switzerland *
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