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- From: pa@curly.appmag.com (Pierre Asselin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: Third party disk drives on HP-UX
- Keywords: HP-UX disk drive 3rd third party
- Message-ID: <1257@curly.appmag.com>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 14:35:21 GMT
- References: <1992Aug29.191511.29259@riacs.edu> <trn.715289167@warper.jhuapl.edu>
- Organization: Applied Magnetics, Goleta, CA
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- In <trn.715289167@warper.jhuapl.edu> trn@warper.jhuapl.edu (Tony Nardo) writes:
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- :1) Have your drive's documentation available to determine the # of tracks,
- : sectors, & cylinders. If you don't have this documentation, but you have
- : a similar model drive on a Sun, you can obtain this information with the
- : "dkinfo" command. Other flavors of Unix may offer similar ways to
- : inspect disk information on other systems.
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- Many drives now use Zone-Bit-Recording. The number of sectors per
- track varies across the disk. Is that factored in or do you have to
- give an average?
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- --Pierre Asselin, Magnetoresistive Head Engineering, Applied Magnetics.
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