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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!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!zib-berlin.de!fauern!news.dfn.de!news.coli.uni-sb.de!cs.uni-sb.de!kroener 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 Lines: 35 Distribution: world 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: js-sfbslc03.cs.uni-sb.de 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 -- ------------------------- |o Thomas Kroener o| | thkro@stud.uni-sb.de | ... real programmers use cat > a.out ... | kroener@cs.uni-sb.de | |o TKROENER@OUTWORLD.ZER o| -------------------------