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From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: QIC 150 density
Date: 7 Apr 1994 15:47:39 +0200
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In <char76O00VBL0UsUx2@andrew.cmu.edu> Timothy J Kniveton <tim+@CMU.EDU> writes:
>what should i set the density to on my QIC 150 drive? st status gives
>me:
QIC doesn't handle different densities or blocksizes. Simply uses 512-byte
blocks. Use your st driver as it ships.
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Steinbach's Guideline for Systems Programming:
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