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From: kapela@prism.poly.edu (Theodore S. Kapela)
Subject: Re: [386BSD] Disklabel for MAXTOR LXT340S
Message-ID: <1992Dec15.165013.18162@prism.poly.edu>
Summary: LXT340 uses ZBR
Organization: Polytechnic University, New York
References: <1992Dec10.080231.10747@email.tuwien.ac.at> <1992Dec12.100620.16224@tfs.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 16:50:13 GMT
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In article <1992Dec12.100620.16224@tfs.com> julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes:
>In article <1992Dec10.080231.10747@email.tuwien.ac.at> mbirgmei@email.tuwien.ac.at (Martin BIRGMEIER) writes:
>>Hello netters,
>>
>>MAXTOR LXT340S 6.20
>>
>>cylinders: 324              <=========================== (!)
>It used the BIOS's idea of the geometry which is different.
>(The adaptec sets it up to LOOK LIKE 32sec, 64heads, 324CYL)
>
>in fact since the disk MAY have Zone recording we may BOTH be wrong!

YES!  The drive *DOES* use Zone-Bit Recording (I have the IDE version 
[ an LXT-340A ] that I am temporarily using for 386bsd.  I called
Maxtor's fax-back service to get the specs on the drive and found
that it does in fact use zone-bit recording.  All error-correction and
bad-sector mapping is handled by the drive itself.  Your best choice is
to probably use the suggestions for DOS (Ugh!).

The spec sheets list all the specs for both interfaces (SCSI and IDE).
The physical drive is the same - just the interface is different.

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 Theodore S. Kapela				kapela@poly.edu
 Center for Applied Large-Scale Computing	
 Polytechnic University