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- From: Mary.Evans@launchpad.unc.edu (Mary Evans)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Drive parameters needed for Seagate st251
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.141507.19161@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 14:15:07 GMT
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- I low-level formatted an st-251 using 820 cyl, 6 heads. I used debug to
- do it. When I finished, the drive capacity showed anout 62 meg. Since
- this is a forty meg drive, I'm puzzled. I used debug--g=c800:5 to
- initiate the low-level format. What is the relative danger in using the
- drive formatted like this? Also, it (the low level) defaulted to 4, and I
- changed it to one. I'v been advised that the XT probably should not have
- a 1 to 1 interleave, so I'm gonna re-do that. (My brother's gonna love me)
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- What is the actual drive geometry? I got the files from wuarchive, and
- the cyls heads and tracks (17) are as above. Disk Mangler also agrees.
-
- ?????
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- Thanks,
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- Mary
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