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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!Germany.EU.net!netmbx.de!zib-berlin.de!math.fu-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: 31 Jan 1994 10:09:49 GMT Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany Lines: 30 Distribution: world Message-ID: <2iilde$cu5@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$1jk@gwynedd.frmug.fr.net> <2ihgho$en2@coli-gate.coli.uni-sb.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: elverum.cs.tu-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Thomas Kroener (kroener@cs.uni-sb.de) wrote: : 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. nono, an amiga wont boot with a my disk (1024bytesperblock) as second disk. seeking for disks and hangs. lars.