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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!uknet!EU.net!sun4nl!philapd!apdnews!spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl!wilko From: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD: using disks with more than 1024 Cylinders.... Message-ID: <wilko.758383770@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> Date: 12 Jan 94 14:09:30 GMT References: <1994Jan12.103945.13750@ericsson.se> <2h0noo$2qm@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Sender: news@idca.tds.philips.nl Lines: 24 nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de (Lars Hentschke) writes: >Lyndon Fletcher (etllnfr@bugs.ericsson.se) wrote: >: First off, thanks to everyone who answered my earlier postings. This has > . > . >same problem, another question: >I've an Adaptec 1542B and some MircopolisXXXX 130MB SCSI0 (???) with >1024 b/s. >Somewhere i herd from a succesful low-level formatting >Blocks per Sector/2 and Sectors/Cylinder*2 or so ... >Now i'm searching for tools on FreeBSD, NextStep, AmigaDOS, or MSDOS. Try SCSICNTL.EXE (DOS) and format the disk with 512 b/s Wilko -- | / o / / _ Wilko Bulte mail: wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) |d|i|g|i|t|a|l| Equipment Corporation voice: +3155-432062 fax: +3155-432103 DTN: 829 2062 PO Box 245 - 7300 AE Apeldoorn - The Netherlands