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Article #12075Connecting a big disk (CDC Wren VI) to a little Sun (3
From: Dennis Gentry
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1989 21:22
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 1989 21:22
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I am trying (so far unsuccessfully) to format and install a CDC Wren VI to my Sun 3/60. Has anyone done this? I can get the Sun to talk to the Wren (and even format it for, say, 5Mb). My main problem at this stage is computing the number of sectors per cylinder and such. The Wren apparently has a variable number of sectors per cylinder from the inside cylinders to the outside, and the Sun formatting software doesn't know anything about that. (In fact, it wants me to have an Emulex or Adaptec controller, which I shouldn't need since the Wren has a built in SCSI controller). Anyone ever done this before? Thanks, Dennis Gentry CPAC Computing Services Manager (dennis@cpac.washington.edu)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request From: dennis@yang.cpac.washington.edu (Dennis Gentry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Connecting a big disk (CDC Wren VI) to a little Sun (3 Keywords: Hardware Message-ID: <DENNIS.89Apr1234119@yang.cpac.washington.edu> Date: 21 Apr 89 21:22:51 GMT Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Center for Process Analytical Chemistry, U of Wash, Seattle Lines: 16 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 2 Apr 89 07:41:19 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 236, message 9 of 11