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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!Germany.EU.net!netmbx.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!nuggets From: nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de (Lars Hentschke) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD: using disks with more than 1024 Cylinders.... Date: 25 Jan 1994 10:41:39 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 26 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2i2t13$oe3@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> References: <1994Jan12.103945.13750@ericsson.se> <2h0noo$2qm@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> <wilko.758383770@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> <2hu69c$1jk@gwynedd.frmug.fr.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: moth.cs.tu-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Francois Berjon (fcb@gwynedd.frmug.fr.net) wrote: : 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. hmmm i've tried scsicntl.exe: 10 points available for changing (headskew, interleave ... AND bytes_per_sector!) but i cant change bytes_per_sector!, my cursor `overjumps' the point for this. Changing other points needs a low-level format, but my micropolis HD won't be formatted. I looked into this drive and think: 'Ohhhhhh noe!', but nothing else. Lars.