On  1 Dec 98 at 12:17, Winston Pike wrote:

> I have a Zenith SuperSport 286 laptop that has a Conner model
> CP-343 hard drive. I need the drive parameters so that I can try
> working with it again. I know for sure that there are four heads
> but I need to know the sectors and tracks/cylinders.
>
> I've already downloaded the Seagate "Deskref" help (who bought out
> Conner but it only lists a CP344. From the labeling it should be a
> half height drive with 44 million bytes which translate to 40Meg.
>
> If anyone has one of these computers with a CP343 or the 20Meg
> (CP323) and can tell me the drive specs, I would be verry thankful.

  CP343 was a special model only supplied to Zenith, apparently,
which would be why Seagate doesn't list it:

  43MB: 4 heads, 805 cyls, sectors and format unknown [could be
proprietary?]

  Available data looks exactly like a CP344, except for games that
the Zenith controller might play.

  The CP344 had 4 heads, 805 cyls, and 26 sectors/track, but could be
mapped as 5/977/17, presumably to accomodate BIOSes that could only
deal with 17-sector formats.  This translated geometry appears to
have been supported on the CP343 as well, so you could try it....

David G

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