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From: mike@octel.UUCP (Michael D. Crawford)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: formatting CDC 9720-1230
Keywords: format hard disc
Message-ID: <50@octel.UUCP>
Date: 17 Oct 89 00:17:52 GMT
Organization: Octel Communications Corporation
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Can anyone tell me what information one wants in /etc/format.dat, on
a Sun under SunOS 4.0, to format a CDC 9720-1230, 1.2 Gigabyte disc?

This would be the numbers of heads, cylinders, sectors, and bytes
per sector.  

This is for a friend who wants to use it on a Xylogics 753 controller.

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