In <listserv%[email protected]>, on 03/26/2009
   at 01:53 PM, John McKown <[email protected]> said:

There is a 4 byte area in the CCW. Historically
this is the CCCCHHHH (in nybbles) field.

The address is 5[1] bytes, and it's not in the CCW. CCHHR

>Now, why is 14 tracks per cylinder so sacrosanct? 

c/14/15/

[1] For large values of 5, e.g., BBCCHHR.
 
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