jky@neptune.dsc.com (Jacob Kan Yu) (12/12/90)
gz@pta.oz.au (Electric Blue) writes: > The HP97544 has 1447 cylinders, 8 heads and 14(?) sectors. ^^^^ The HP97544 has 1457 physical cylinders per surface, 8 are reserved for use as spares, 1 is used to store defect list, 1 is used as a maintain track, leaving 1447 cylinders per surface for user. It also has 8 heads and 56 sectors per cylinder. Its sector size is 512 bytes. >Login name: gz In real life: George Zisis. Phone +61 2 415 0515 > O. O .O > -m---------- \.#-#./ > ----mmm-------- .'#####`. > -------mmmmmm----- / | | \ >----------mmmmmmmmm-- --------------------|-------------------- > Fly Inverted .... | .... It confuses the hell > Out of the ducks.... Jacob Yu Internet: jky%neptune%dschub@hub.ucsb.edu Uucp: pyramid!ucsbcsl!dschub!neptune!jky Life is but a walking shadow.