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- From: devans@ccubb.com (David Evans)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Formatting Hard Drives>2gig
- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 96 09:54:54
- Organization: Sysop of CCUBB.COM
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- I have run into a "bug" which I can't explain. I recently aquired a Quantum
- Grand Prix drive (nice critter) and have been attempting to format it. My
- Fastlane card initially formatted it with:
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- 22669 Cylinders 7 heads, and 52 blocks per track
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- According to the specs of the Grand Prix however it has:
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- 20 heads, 4066 tracks (cylinders?), and 118 sectors per track
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- Using my fastlane setup, I get r/w errors on my last partition on that drive.
- It appears that the "format" of the head/blocks/cylinders execeeds the
- capacity of the drive (guess). When re-configured to the specs of the Grand
- Prix (20,4066,118), it works.
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- The fastlane software however reports that I only have 3564 cylinders NOT the
- 4066 as specified in the docs. I tried formatting the critter using rdprep (a
- interesting tool) and had success but it also limited me to 3564 cylinders.
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- Any ideas on what I am doing wrong? Do I need to do something else?
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- The Grand Prix also has parity on it. Do I need or want parity? I disabled
- it and tested it on a partition. Amigados seems to like a drive immensely
- better without parity checking.
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