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From: peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Installing NetBSD on WD1007 ESDI drive
Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
Date: Sun, 30 May 1993 22:51:51 GMT
Message-ID: <C7v3IG.5D@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
Keywords: WD1003,ESDI,BSD
References: <1993May28.011157.19632@gandalf.ca> <C7v3DF.27@sugar.NeoSoft.COM>
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In article <C7v3DF.27@sugar.NeoSoft.COM> peter@NeoSoft.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
> In article <1993May28.011157.19632@gandalf.ca> dejones@gandalf.ca (David E. Jones) writes:
> > The ESDI drive is a Miniscribe, approx. 318 MB.
> The drive is a Miniscribe 9380E. The geometry is 1224 cylinders, 15 heads,
> and 34-36 tracks with a native format.
^^^^^^
You mean "sectors", you great steaming leather-bound git.
Oh, sorry.
Besides, it can't handle 36 sectors. You found that out at work.
That was with 18 s/t, 1K sectors.
And with 512 byte sectors it'll magically work?
Uh, no... OK, that's 34 s/t.
--
Peter da Silva. <peter@sugar.neosoft.com>.
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'U`
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