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From: berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu (Dire Wolf)
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Subject: Re: Sabre 850 problems on Suns
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I don't know the specifics of running a CDC Sabre-850 on the 7053
controller, but I have three of them on Xylogics 451's and Ciprico Rimfire
3224's.  Try different "tag" types for extended cylinder addressing.
Also, be sure that you're allowing enough bits/sector for your controller
type.  Reformatting a disk to use a slightly different sector size can
result in the messages you saw, and it will require a lot of time and
patience to reformat.

	Mike Berger
	Department of Statistics, University of Illinois
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