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- From: barefoot@nmia.com (Kristofer D. Dale)
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- Subject: Re: Formatting Hard Drives>2gig
- Date: 30 Mar 1996 17:44:25 GMT
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- : 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.
- : 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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- i went through an unpleasant experience trying to low-level format a 1/2
- gig scsi2 seagate, it freezes the A3000 every time , when i stated
- playing around with the active termination jumpers, it still didn't work,
- and one of the settings (described as 'power from drive power connector
- and to SCSI bus') started to burn traces on my motherboard in the
- vicinity of the scsi connetor! Has anyone else had trouble formatting
- SCSI2 spec drives? Is there a work-around?
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- barefoot
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