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From: cwwj@ur-tut.UUCP (Clarence Wilkerson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Wren III-182 question
Message-ID: <1099@ur-tut.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 88 15:58:43 GMT
References: <856@bigtex.uu.net> <3371@cbmvax.UUCP> <898@bigtex.UUCP>
Organization: Univ. of Rochester Computing Center
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Keywords: Fixing Compaq brain damage
Summary: To Fool DOS


 The declaration of 16 heads and 17 sectors.track was probably just
to work around the 1024 cylinder limit, and the 17 sectors/track
to be at the standard number. These probably do not influence the
actual physical format of the disk.