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- From: dhinds@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds)
- Subject: Re: Maxtor Tahiti II troubles
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.200129.18305@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <1992Dec14.221159.21177@leland.Stanford.EDU> <tktgkjg@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 20:01:29 GMT
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- In article <tktgkjg@zuni.esd.sgi.com> olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) writes:
- >
- >It sounds like you are trying to use media with 1024 byte sectors,
- >at a guess. That *should* work for the raw drive, unless I broke
- >it in subsequent changes, or the new firmware on the Tahiti isn't
- >reported the sector size correctly.
-
- Bingo. I should have figured that out myself -- I didn't spot the little
- "1024 B/sector" on the cartridge.
-
- - David Hinds
- dhinds@allegro.stanford.edu
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