Product Support Bulletin

EPSON
EPSON AMERICA INC.
SERVICE DEPARTMENT
PRODUCT SUPPORT BULLETIN
DATE:
1/12/88
NUMBER: S-0033
SUBJECT:
EQUITY II+/III+ 40MB CDC HARD DRIVE INFORMATION
Epson America is now
using the Control Data
(CDC) 40MB hard
disk drive in the EQ II+ and EQ III+ (12MHz) computers.
The CDC 40MB hard drive is
a half
height, high performance,
highly reliable
random access
storage device. This device
records and
recovers data
on three
5 1/4"
fixed disks. The
following features are included:
Capacity
-51MB (Unformatted)
-43MB (Formatted
Cylinders -989
Heads
-5
Access Time
-28ms
Power
-12VDC 4.5A
-5VDC 1.0A
The CDC drive uses a dedicated landing zone at the inner most
radius and has an automatic shipping lock that disengages when
power is
applied.
It can be mounted either horizontally or
vertically.
The CDC 40MB can be used in any of the Equity series computers
providing the controller is compatible with 40MB drives.
The Epson
product
code for
the
CDC 40MB hard drive is
Q218A-AB.
When installing this drive in an
Equity II+
or III+ computer
specify drive
type 17 in the
setup program.
To utilize the
storage capacity above the
MS-DOS 32MB limit, use
of a disk
manager program
such as
SpeedStor from Storage Dimensions is
needed.
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