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From: paul@devon.UUCP (Paul Sutcliffe Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs
Subject: Need to know cyl/head/sector info for CDC drive
Message-ID: <838@devon.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 88 19:56:25 GMT
Article-I.D.: devon.838
Organization: Devon Computer Services, Lancaster, PA
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The site administrator of one of my UUCP neighbors is in a bind with
a disk drive for his system.  He has the drive, but no idea how many
cylinders, heads, and sectors per track it is.  Below is the pertinent
part of an e-mail message from him that describes what he knows about
the drive:

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| > How big (in Mebabytes) is it supposed to be?  Perhaps a quick note in
| > comp.periphs will get you an answer (E.G. If it's 117Mb it *must* be
| > so-many cylinders and so-many heads...).
| 
| Aye there's the rub. It's reported to be "300" Megabytes. I don't know how
| accurate that is. It is a fixed drive with an SMD interface. It appears to
| be dual-ported, although not being sure what dual-ported drives look like
| I'm not sure about that - but it does have twice as many connectors as I
| need. (I am taking the daisy-chain connector to the next drive into
| account.) It was manufactured by CDC.
| 
| If you could post that info. in comp.periphs for me I would be most
| grateful, as the people at Zaiaz who know what kind of drive it is haven't
| seen fit to call me back. (Okay, I only called them once, but still... it
| irks me...) If I can't get in touch with someone there (assuming I get
| around to trying) then I'm sure there's SOMEbody who reads comp.periphs who
| can identify it.
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If anyone can identify this drive, please send mail to me and I'll
forward it.

Thanks in advance.

- paul

-- 
Paul Sutcliffe, Jr.				  +------------------------+
						  | Know what I hate most? |
UUCP (smart): paul@devon.UUCP			  |  Rhetorical questions. |
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