7 Apr
2007
7 Apr
'07
1:42 p.m.
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
John Kourafas wrote:
I have an extensive collection of MFM/RLL drives and have _never_ run
across one with that interface in a 3.5" form-factor. Not sure that
anything of this sort existed. 5.25" 1/2-ht. was about as sophisticated
as they got.
The largest MFM drive ever made was _probably_ the Maxtor 2190 at 190MB
unformatted. ISTR that there was a logical limit to the number of
cylinders due to the control protocol (or perhaps limitations in the PC
BIOSes of the time) and physical limits to the number of sectors/cylinder
and the number of platters (the 2190 had 15 or 17?)
Steve
--
Also looking for a Micropolis 1325 MFM Drive,
71/80MB , I've seen both the
ST506 and Mic. 1325 on eBay for like 600.00 which I think is crazy...
What's the largest capacity 3.5" MFM HDD available?