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From: romwa@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Mark Dornfeld)
Date: Thu, 3-Mar-88 23:10:20 EST
Message-ID: <1988Mar3.231020.428@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Wren III-182 question
References: <856@bigtex.uu.net> <3371@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: romwa@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Mark Dornfeld)
Keywords: Fixing Compaq brain damage

The question here was the OMTI 8620 Controller recognizing the
ninth surface on a CDC Wren III -183 ESDI disk.

Consensys corporation in Toronto uses that combination and I
believe they just start out with a low level DOS format and
tell the controller that there are 9 heads.  We have one
system which they configured and it has 150 Mb of disk instead
of the 130 which Compaq ships.