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- From: kapela@prism.poly.edu (Theodore S. Kapela)
- Subject: Re: [386BSD] Disklabel for MAXTOR LXT340S
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.165013.18162@prism.poly.edu>
- Summary: LXT340 uses ZBR
- Organization: Polytechnic University, New York
- References: <1992Dec10.080231.10747@email.tuwien.ac.at> <1992Dec12.100620.16224@tfs.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 16:50:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec12.100620.16224@tfs.com> julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec10.080231.10747@email.tuwien.ac.at> mbirgmei@email.tuwien.ac.at (Martin BIRGMEIER) writes:
- >>Hello netters,
- >>
- >>MAXTOR LXT340S 6.20
- >>
- >>cylinders: 324 <=========================== (!)
- >It used the BIOS's idea of the geometry which is different.
- >(The adaptec sets it up to LOOK LIKE 32sec, 64heads, 324CYL)
- >
- >in fact since the disk MAY have Zone recording we may BOTH be wrong!
-
- YES! The drive *DOES* use Zone-Bit Recording (I have the IDE version
- [ an LXT-340A ] that I am temporarily using for 386bsd. I called
- Maxtor's fax-back service to get the specs on the drive and found
- that it does in fact use zone-bit recording. All error-correction and
- bad-sector mapping is handled by the drive itself. Your best choice is
- to probably use the suggestions for DOS (Ugh!).
-
- The spec sheets list all the specs for both interfaces (SCSI and IDE).
- The physical drive is the same - just the interface is different.
-
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- Theodore S. Kapela kapela@poly.edu
- Center for Applied Large-Scale Computing
- Polytechnic University
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