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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!metro!basser.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!zaphod.crihan.fr!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!frmug.fr.net!renux.frmug.fr.net!keltia.frmug.fr.net!gwynedd.frmug.fr.net!fcb 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 Organization: The Gwynedd System Lines: 20 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2hu69c$1jk@gwynedd.frmug.fr.net> References: <1994Jan12.103945.13750@ericsson.se> <2h0noo$2qm@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <wilko.758383770@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: gwynedd.frmug.fr.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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