[rescue] replacing Ultra 5/10 IDE drives?

[Sandwich Maker]

" From: Chris Anderson <christop at charm.net>
" 
" On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 13:36 -0400, Sandwich Maker wrote:
" > samsung didn't have this info on their website?  tsk tsk tsk...
" > seagate carries datasheets on 20yo cdc drives.  what does it cost
" > them?  probably not even 1 gig of disk space and a few long-settled
" > index pages.
" > 
" > i bet fujitsu^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hhitschi has a similar history on ibm drives.
" 
" Hey...  I love my spinpoints!  They are the only pata drives I've ever
" owned.
" 
" http://erms.samsungusa.com/customer/sea/jsp/faqs/faqs_view.jsp?
" PG_ID=1&AT_ID=8432&PROD_SUB_ID=26&PROD_ID=-1
" 
" Down at the bottom there's a pdf.
" 
" http://ww2.samsungsupport.com/faqdata/handylinksredirect.asp?id=476
"       Open Series      Model       LBA      Capa.(Mb) Transfer Mode Transfer Rate  RPM   Seek time  Buffer size Shipping Start   Cyl   Hd Sec
"                                                                                   7200 8.9/10.0 ms    2048 kB      Apr. 2003
"                                                          UDMA133       133 MB/s
"                       SP1203N 234,493,056    120(GB)                                                                           232,632 16  63
"  SpinPoint P80 Series
"                                                          UDMA133       133 MB/s   7200 8.9/10.0 ms      8 MB       Sep. 2003
"                       SP1213N 234,493,056    120(GB)                                                                           232,632 16  63
"                                                          SATA1.0       150 MB/s   7200 8.9/10.0 ms      8 MB       Oct. 2003
"                       SP1213C 234,493,056    120(GB)                                                                           232,632 16  63
"  SpinPoint V80 Series                                    UDMA133       133 MB/s   5400 8.9/10.0 ms    2048 kB      Apr. 2003
"                       SV1203N 234,493,056    120(GB)                                                                           232,632 16  63
"  SpinPoint V60 Series                                    UDMA100       100 MB/s   5400     8.9 ms     2048 kB
"                       SV1204H 234,493,056  120.06(GB)                                                                          232,632 16  63

note they all still claim 16h 63s, which i seriously doubt reflects
actual geometry.  [i recall this having something to do with m$ cruft]
however, my headcalc prog gives
64 heads, 126 sectors, 29079 cylinders, 0 block loss
64 heads, 162 sectors, 22617 cylinders, 0 block loss
64 heads, 189 sectors, 19386 cylinders, 0 block loss
64 heads, 243 sectors, 15078 cylinders, 0 block loss
as possible geometries, and the last one is acceptable to s2.6.
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