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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!hasty From: hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr) Subject: Re: FreeBSD: using disks with more than 1024 Cylinders.... Message-ID: <hastyCK791s.DHB@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <wilko.758383770@spoetnix.idca.tds.philips.nl> <2hu69c$1jk@gwynedd.frmug.fr.net> <2i2t13$oe3@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 1994 19:05:51 GMT Lines: 38 In article <2i2t13$oe3@news.cs.tu-berlin.de> nuggets@cs.tu-berlin.de (Lars Hentschke) writes: >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. > Hmm... can we change the kernel to accomodate 1024 byte sectors and associated apps? Amancio -- FREE unix, gcc, tcp/ip, X, open-look, interviews, tcl/tk, MIME, midi, sound at freebsd.cdrom.com:/pub/FreeBSD Amancio Hasty, Consultant | Home: (415) 495-3046 | e-mail hasty@netcom.com | ftp-site depository of all my work: ahasty@cisco.com | sunvis.rtpnc.epa.gov:/pub/386bsd/X