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From: elroy!suned1!efb@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Everett F Batey II)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: CDC Sabre 9720-736 SMD to XD7053
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 21 Feb 90 01:54:58 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 51, message 10

Getting an error message _hard sector count less than nsect_ each time we
try to format our CDC Sabre 9720-736.  We are using values physcyl=1626,
datacyl=1624, altcyl=2, sect_per_tk=52, rpm=3600, bytes_per_sect=582.  IF
ANY OF YOU HAVE successfully used SMD Controller XD7053 with CDC Sabre
9720-736, we would appreciate your format.dat and any any dip-switch or
other adjustment data.

Our XD7053 is only supporting these two 736s and has the vendor required
configs.  The Sun 3 ( OS 4.0.3 ) IS ABLE to touch the -736s address
register so we assume we are partly connected, correctly.  IDEAS, ALL ..
WELCOME ..

[[Ed's Note: Okay, I'm going to be sorry I did this, but it needs to be
done, so I'm going to open myself to floods of mail. Please send your
favorite *working* format.dat entries for devices to me
(RGREENEB@RICEVM1.BITNET or RGREENEB@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU or
...!rice!ricevm1!rgreeneb) I'll try to cut out the excesses and put them
in some managable form and then we can have a ready reference for this
type of question, since this seems to be a favorite :). -bdg]]