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- On Dec 12, 7:22pm, Calvin Chu wrote:
- > Doees it matter if the correct number of heads are read by HDToolbox? My
- > drive is a 4 head 330, but it reads it as 1 head....
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- I'm sure that the correct number of heads are being read by HDToolbox.
- What I think is happening is that the drive is probably a newer drive that
- has several zones, each with a different number of sectors per track.
- I suspect that HDToolbox takes SectorsPerTrack*Heads*Cylinders and compares
- that value with the disk capacity. If the result is larger than the actual
- capacity, HDToolbox looks like it takes the reported SectorsPerTrack,
- multiplies that by the number of Heads, then divides the actual capacity
- by that value - which will be the number of cylinders reported by HDToolbox.
- Since AmigaDOS isn't going to care what the actual disk geometry is,
- HDToolbox picks the value of 1 head, but SectorsPerTrack*Heads sectors.
- This results in the same size "cylinder" as Heads surfaces with
- SectorsPerTrack sectors.
-
- [The above isn't quite correct - I just checked the parameters on my
- Maxtor 7345S and while the drive reports 4 heads and 96 sectors per track,
- HDToolbox pick 1 head and 192 sectors per track - with the result that the
- number of cylinders is almost twice the actual number of cylinders.]
-
- Michael
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