matt@beatnix.UUCP (Matthew D. Shaver) (03/17/88)
Here is a strange one for you. (At least I find it strange.) The Seagate
ST251N (SCSI) drive has the following statistics:
sectors per track 26
data surfaces 4
sectors per cylinder 103
Now 4 times 26 equals 104 so where does that extra sector go? Are they
using it for something special?
Thanks, Matthew.
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Matthew D. Shaver --- UUCP: ..!{sun|lll-tis}!elxsi!beatnix!matt
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BELL: (408) 942-0900cwwj@ur-tut (Clarence Wilkerson) (03/19/88)
On my scsi disk, the first physical sector is numbered 0, not 1.]
leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) (03/22/88)
In article <749@elxsi.UUCP> matt@beatnix.UUCP (Matthew D. Shaver) writes:
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<Here is a strange one for you. (At least I find it strange.) The Seagate
<ST251N (SCSI) drive has the following statistics:
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< sectors per track 26
< data surfaces 4
< sectors per cylinder 103
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<Now 4 times 26 equals 104 so where does that extra sector go? Are they
<using it for something special?
Well, I spent most of Friday installing and low-level formatting
ST-251 disks (ST-506 interface). They've got *6* heads and 820 cylinders.
I suspect that the controller on the HD is lying to the SCSI controller
for some reason.
Maybe those are "logical" cylinders, not physical?
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