Format.dat for CDC9720-1230?
Russ Poffenberger
poffen at sj.ate.slb.com
Tue Jul 31 02:53:20 AEST 1990
In article <10320 at brazos.Rice.edu> jms at tardis.tymnet.com (Joe Smith) writes:
>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.
This is incorrect. Both the 753 and 7053 are functionally equivalent, both
supporting up to 4 drives. The difference is...
753 small (6u) vme size.
7053 large (9u) vme size. Developed primarily for Sun systems.
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