Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:19337 comp.periphs:1190
Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!ubc-cs!van-bc!skl
From: skl@van-bc.UUCP (Samuel Lam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.periphs
Subject: Adaptec 2072 and Seagate 277 combination
Summary: Anyone have experience with (or something to say about) this pair?
Keywords: Adaptec 2072 Controller Seagate 277 Hard-disk Disk
Message-ID: <1884@van-bc.UUCP>
Date: 19 Sep 88 11:41:54 GMT
Organization: Balliffe Consulting, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Lines: 24

Would anyone like to share their experience in using the Adaptec ACB-2072
controller with a Seagate ST-277 (60 Meg, RLL) disk?  If you have something
to say about this setup, I would like to hear from you.

I have found that the Adaptec controller only gives 25 sectors per track
instead of the usual 26.  Is there any way around this?  There is a set
"high-performance jumpers" on the board, but the only documentation I got
with it, the ACB-2072 Installation Guide, doesn't give a lot of details
on what they do.  Is more detailed documentation on this controller
available from Adaptec?

On the ST-277, the one-sector-per-track saving could come out to about
2.5 Meg, which would be enough to hold another day of news for a full-feed.

Please reply by e-mail if possible, if I get any informative replies, I
will post a summary later.  If you do post a reply, please also e-mail
me a copy of it, as net.black-holes do exist and I am sure we won't
receive every article.  (I do read these newsgroups myself.)

Thanks in advance.

...Sam
-- 
Samuel Lam     {alberta,watmath,uw-beaver,ubc-vision}!ubc-cs!van-bc!skl