hard disks for 3b1

Kevin O'Gorman kevin at kosman.UUCP
Fri Nov 24 05:29:40 AEST 1989


Drat.  This is going to confuse a lot of folks.  The correction is still
not as clear as it should be:

In article <11654 at cbnews.ATT.COM> mvadh at cbnews.ATT.COM (andrew.d.hay,54242,wi,1d007,508 374 5484) writes:
>In article <1145 at becker.UUCP> bdb at becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker) writes:
>[]
>"					       You
>"	can't reference more than 1024 tracks without
>"	the P5.1 upgrade, and you can't reference
>"	more than 8 heads without the WD2010.
>
>this is backwards; it's the 2010 that gives you access to more tracks,
                                This should read "cylinders"    ^^^^^^
>and the P5.1 logic that adds access to more cylinders.
  and this should read "heads" or "surfaces" ^^^^^^^^^
>

Both of these upgrades have the effect of adding to the number of
tracks accessable.  One does it by adding the tracks of additional
cylinders, the other by adding tracks of additional surfaces.



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