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- From: "Olaf Barthel" <olsen@sourcery.han.de>
- Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 10:07:55 +0100
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- Subject: Re: Formatting Hard Drives>2gig
- Message-ID: <13213849@sourcery.han.de>
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- In Article <19960329.7BAF540.95CA@ccubb.com>, David Evans <devans@ccubb.com> wrote:
- >
- > 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:
- >
- > 22669 Cylinders 7 heads, and 52 blocks per track
- >
- > According to the specs of the Grand Prix however it has:
- >
- > 20 heads, 4066 tracks (cylinders?), and 118 sectors per track
-
- What the drive reports and what the disk partitioning software makes of this
- data need not match. HDToolBox for example weaves some magic to turn the
- drive data into something the filing system won't choke on, but it doesn't
- always succeed. Actually, what the drive tells about itself need not even match
- physical reality.
-
- > 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.
- >
- > 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.
- >
- > Any ideas on what I am doing wrong? Do I need to do something else?
-
- Might be you need a new filing system. With the `old' pre-v40.4 FFS you
- are bound to get into trouble should some partition data (e.g. BlocksPerTrack)
- become larger than 65535. I'll see if I can find a way to make AT release the
- the v40.4 FFS.
-
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