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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2018 01:47:42 +1000 (EST)
Subject: [TUHS] Disk data layout (was: /dev/drum)
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On Wed, 25 Apr 2018, Paul Winalski wrote:

> Bin number was zero except on the IBM 2321 data cell drive.  CKD drives 
> supported a variable number of records on each track, hence the term 
> "record" rather than "sector".

Would that have been the infamous chicken-plucker?[*]  Wherein if things 
went OK, then they were OK, but if things went wrong...

[*]
Also known by, ahem, a name that rhymes...

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