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- From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore)
- Subject: Disklabeling (was Re: Another Adaptec Question)
- Message-ID: <#79m_a.alm@netcom.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 22:29:21 GMT
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- References: <1992Aug16.144341.24052@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> <15776@star.cs.vu.nl> <1992Aug17.173807.2309@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- In article <1992Aug17.173807.2309@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel) writes:
- >In article <15776@star.cs.vu.nl> kjb@cs.vu.nl (Kees J. Bot) writes:
- >>rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel) writes:
- >>>
- >>>In article <7@tama.spec.co.jp> amurai@tama.spec.co.jp (Atsushi Murai) writes:
- >>>>ariticle is not ..but) and Fujitsu M2266SA 1.2 GB Disks. Functionality
- >>>>is good but it looks like loosing a space about 200MB (above 1Gbyte).
- >>>>And some guy let me know about this is a known problem of 1542B and
- >>>>Adaptec will be fixed by new board - 1542C. (Oh well.....)
- >>>>[...]
- >>It has nothing to do with heads, sectors or cylinders. The group 0 SCSI
- >>read/write commands allow only for a 21 bit block address limiting one
- >>to 2 megablocks, which is 1GB at the usual 512 bytes per block.
- >
- >We don't talk about smart OSes like 386BSD :-) but the original poster
- >asked why he doesn't see all the space under DOS/Novell. There it has to
- >do quite a lot with heads/tracks/sectors ...
- >
- >>The group 1 SCSI read/write commands offer a 32 bit block address
- >>however, but not all O.S.'s are smart enough to use those commands.
- >>
- >>>Adaptec has now a new mapping scheme with 256 heads and 64 sectors per
- >>>track, [etc...]
- >>
- >>At least the 64 sectors per track number is wrong, you can't have more
- >>than 63 sectors on a track. I don't like the 256 heads per track
- >>either, I know of one (1.5GB) disk with an AT interface that uses the
- >>top 2 head bits for two more cylinder bits. This limits the number of
- >>heads per track to 64, but allows for 4096 cylinders. I don't know if
- >>this is a normal way of addressing bigger disks under DOS. Anyone?
- >
- >Sorry, for those off-by-one errors, here is the original text from the
- >Adaptec README file:
- >
- >--quote--
- >To eliminate the 1 Gigabyte limit, Adaptec's new extended
- >translation feature uses 255 heads and 63 sectors,
- >extending the disk drive capacity limit under
- >DOS to 8 Gigabytes.
- >--end-quote--
-
-
- To return to 386BSD and disklabeling a SCSI drive:
- am I correct in assuming that the specification of # of cylinders,
- sectors per cylinder, etc does not matter at all, so long as the total
- number of blocks is correct?
-