E70 Switches

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From: Galen Hunt
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 1991 18:17

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A while back I posted a message asking for information about the switches
on the E70 drive.  Several people have since then sent email asking a summary
of the information I received.  The most complete information came from one
source to whom I am greatly indebted.  Thanks for the help!

> From: Robert MacKinnon <robmack@eik.ii.uib.no>
>
> If the drive is a type 0667 then the switches are :
> 
> 	1 (on)	= power on via software
>	  (off)	= power on via the on/off switch on the RT
>	2	= not used (diags??)
>	3 (on)	= 512 byte sectors
>	  (off)	= 256 byte sectors
>	4,5,6	= Drive select (binary)
>		  4 off 5 on 6 off = 2
>		 (4     2    1)
>
>cyls = 583
>heads = 7
>sectors = 36
>
> Terminating resistor should be standard ESDI.  (I'm not sure about this.)

gchunt@peruvian.utah.edu

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