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From: johnl@ima.ima.isc.com (John R. Levine)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.edu
Subject: Re: SMD Interface standard
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Date: 12 Sep 88 22:46:11 GMT
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In article <6290@nsc.nsc.com> curry@nsc.UUCP (Ray Curry) writes:
>I was wondering if some sole out there could point me to the keeper of 
>the SMD drive interface standard.  I know that the SCSI is now an 
>ANSI standard, but don't seem to be able to find SMD listed anywhere.

SMD is ANSI standard X2.91M-1982.  The standard was promulgated fairly
late in the life of SMD interfaces, so it attempted to codify existing
practice rather than creating a clean standard, so for example it only
defines 10 cylinder address lines limiting standard SMD drives to 1K
cylinders.
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