Maxtor 8760s on a DecStation 3100

[mark edwards]

In article <9674 at batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> eric at geology.tn.cornell.edu writes:
>We have been running our DECstation 3100 off of a Maxtor 8760S since August
>with no major problems.  I did not do the installation myself, someone
>else did.  We started with a 100 MB internal (rz23), so he may have loaded a
>small system onto that before loading the 8760, I don't know.
>  
>>Also if someone has a disktab entry for the rz80 or the 8760 we'd
>>greatly appreciate a copy.
>>    edwards at vms.macc.wisc.edu
>
>Here is what is now in our /etc/disktab (I can't tell you anything more):
>
>rz80|RZ80|DEC RZ80 Winchester ?:\
>        :ty=winchester:ns#57:nt#15:nc#1423:\
>        :pa#15884:ba#8192:fa#1024:\
>        :pb#66690:bb#4096:fb#1024:\
>        :pc#1216665:bc#8192:fc#1024:\
>        :pd#220096:bd#8192:fd#1024:\
>        :pe#219735:be#8192:fe#1024:\
>        :pf#437760:bf#8192:ff#1024:\
>        :pg#877591:bg#8192:fg#1024:\
>        :ph#256500:bh#8192:fh#1024:


First of all thanks for the info. But I'm confused now.

You see in my Maxtor manual it says

sectors per track = 54
tracks per cylinder = 15
number of cylinders = 1632

On a Next I found the following (the NeXT uses 1024 byte sectors so
that may explain the 26. But 26 * 2 = 52. Where's the other 2 sectors?)

ns = 26
nt = 15/16
nc = 1626


What gives? Can anyone explain what is going on here? Is the 8760 really
only one drive? Or does Maxtor 3rd party it to several manufacturers
and just put their name on it?

Confused in MadTown
mark
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