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- From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
- Subject: Re: formating a Micropolis 1375 with a Sun 3/80
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.020055.25654@siemens.com>
- Sender: news@siemens.com (NeTnEwS)
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- Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton (Plainsboro), NJ
- References: <1993Jan6.181555.467@solace.hsh.se>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:00:55 GMT
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- >I have some problems when trying to format a Micropolis 1375
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- It's the same as the 1355, which is in format.dat, but with a SCSI interface.
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- ><Micropolis 1375 cyl 1022 alt 2 hd 8 sec 35>
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- disk_type = "Micropolis 1355" \
- : ctlr = MD21 \
- : ncyl = 1018 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 1024 : nhead = 8 : nsect = 34 \
- : rpm = 3600 : bpt = 20832
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- >When I format it I get the following:
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- Why are you formatting it? I had a bunch of these go through my hands, and
- never found one that wasn't formatted.
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- I used to work for a vendor who only stopped shipping them when Micropolis
- discontinued them. They're slow and don't hold much, but toward the end I
- was getting drives with *0* media defects on the factory's list.
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