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Xref: sserve comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage:13261 comp.periphs.scsi:26322 comp.sys.next.hardware:13528 comp.os.linux.misc:28808 comp.os.linux.help:63624 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3972 comp.os.386bsd.questions:14238 Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.next.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.dell.com!tadpole.com!uunet!zib-berlin.de!math.fu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!elwood!wolf From: wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Wolfram) Subject: SyQuest SQ3270S for Data Exchange? Sender: news@prz.tu-berlin.de (Newsadmin Elwood-PRZ) Message-ID: <CyrpHu.2FB@prz.tu-berlin.de> Date: Sat, 5 Nov 1994 00:03:29 GMT Lines: 35 Organization: PRZ TU-Berlin X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Hi, I would like to use my SyQuest SQ3270S, i.e. the cartridges, for exchanging data. Sounds natural but what happens if different SCSI controllers in the different computers are using different heads/sectors translation schemes (e.g. Adaptec controllers make every SCSI disk to appear to have 64 heads and 32 sectors, but not all SCSI controllers do the same) and this information is stored in any way in the respective partition when it's formatted? Even DOS stores the number of heads and sectors in the "boot" sector of the respective partition. Does this cause any problems when using the cartridges in different computers? What about the BSD file system of NeXTSTEP? Is exchanging cartridges possible? What about the Linux file system? Thanks in advance, Thomas -- Thomas Wolfram <thomas@aeon.in-berlin.de> Germany: 0 30 31421171 PRZ TU Berlin <wolf@prz.tu-berlin.de> abroad: +49 30 31421171 EANTC WWW: http://www.prz.tu-berlin.de:/~wolf _____________________________________________________________________________ _____S__I__C____T__R__A__N__S__I__T____G__L__O__R__I__A____M__U__N__D__I_____