davism@creatures.cs.vt.edu (Mat Davis) (06/13/90)
I'm trying to set up a SyQuest 44M cartridge hard drive with A/UX 2.0, and I need some help with the entry in /etc/disktab. disktab has fields for number of sectors/track, tracks/cylinder, and cylinders/disk, but for the SyQuest I have three sets of these: one for 256-byte sectors, one for 512-byte sectors, and one for 1024-byte sectors. Can someone tell me (via e-mail) which sector size the system is expecting? And I'm not sure which sector size the cartridge is formatted with; can I find out somehow or does it even matter to A/UX? If all else fails, I plan to set up three partitions on the drive, make file- systems on each one using a different set of parameters (256, 512, and 1024 bytes/sector), and see which one appears to do file I/O the best. Thanks, Mat Davis (davism@vtopus.cs.vt.edu)