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From: rob@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Rob Logan)
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Subject: Re: generic smd disks on sun
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Date: 10 Nov 88 21:20:26 GMT
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From article <17700022@clio>, by berger@clio.las.uiuc.edu:
> larger capacity drive.  I can get a good price on the CDC Sabre
> series drive (nominally 800 megabytes).  It's a standard SMD
#
# @(#)format.dat 1.4 87/11/20 SMI
#
disk_type = "CDC 9720-850" \
	: ctlr = XY450 : fmt_time = 4 \
	: ncyl = 1378 : acyl = 3 : pcyl = 1381 : nhead = 15 : nsect = 67 \
	: rpm = 3600 : bps = 603  \
	: bpt = 40401 : drive_type = 1


you must have the drives you can turn off the runt sector for this.

			Rob

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