Format.dat for CDC9720-1230?

Joe Smith jms at tardis.tymnet.com
Thu Jul 26 13:27:23 AEST 1990


In article <9892 at brazos.Rice.edu> xait!mgb at cs.utexas.edu (Michael G. Burner) writes:
>Isn't the correct name of Xylogic's controller the "7053"?  Why do people
>insist on dropping the "0"? 

My understanding of these controllers is that only 2 disks can be attached
to the 753 (xy0 and xy0), but 4 disks can be attached to the 7053
(xd0-xd3).  Therefore the "0" is significant.

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