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From: kroener@cs.uni-sb.de (Thomas Kroener)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: FreeBSD: using disks with more than 1024 Cylinders....
Date: 30 Jan 1994 23:40:40 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of the Saarland, Germany
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Message-ID: <2ihgho$en2@coli-gate.coli.uni-sb.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>
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In article <2hu69c$1jk@gwynedd.frmug.fr.net>, fcb@gwynedd.frmug.fr.net (Francois Berjon) writes:
|> 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
Try to find someone with a Commodore Amiga, the system tool (HDToolBox)
will do that.
...Thomas
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