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From: fcb@gwynedd.frmug.fr.net (Francois Berjon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: using disks with more than 1024 Cylinders....
Date: 23 Jan 1994 15:48:46 GMT
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wilko@idca.tds.philips.nl (Wilko Bulte) writes:
|> >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

I've got the same problem with a Micropolis drive, also having 1024 bytes/sector.
Could you tell me where this scsicntl.exe program might be found?
I don't have that one, and all the SCSI formatting utilities I have do not ask
for the number of bytes/sector.

Thanks in advance.

-- 
Francois Berjon                         Francois.Berjon@gwynedd.frmug.fr.net