merlyn9@ihlpe.att.com (Michael T Sedwick) (06/05/91)
I have the following 3.5" half-height Segate drive, which unformatted should be 239Mb, formatted 210Mb. Model: ST1239N SCSI disk (old model # 94351-230 SWIFT) Well going by the manufacturers specs below, I have errors in formatting this drive properly. Cylinders: ...1268 Heads ...9 Sec/track ...36 When I key in these numbers... right away I see the following error repeated several times: 'Block 399105 (1231/7/9), Fatal non-media error (illegal request)' I see this again more times after format has run its course, or when trying to label the disk. Interestingly though, if I use 1231 as the total cylinder count, I can format and label fine... but then I have a 186Mb formatted device. I don't want to sacrifce that 24Mb of space... Now I did call Segate, thinking they would know thier own products... foolish me! I was left with the answers that the technicians only knew about MSDOS (yuk tuie!). Some help calling the manufacturer does. Well if anyone has worked with this drive before, or has the correct format.dat information for this device PLEASE LET ME KNOW. I am getting grey patches over this one. Actually any help would do at this point, Sun was stumped on this also. thanks, --mts !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Michael T. Sedwick AT&T Computer Systems merlyn9@ihlpe.att.com Napperville, Il. (708) 979-1026
merlyn9@ihlpe.att.com (Michael T Sedwick) (06/05/91)
I have the following 3.5" half-height Segate drive, which unformatted should be 239Mb, formatted 210Mb. Model: ST1239N (old model # 94351-230 SWIFT) Well going by the manufacturers specs below, I have errors in formatting this drive properly. Cylinders: ...1268 Heads ...9 Sec/track ...36 When I key in these numbers... right away I see the following error repeated several times: 'Block 399105 (1231/7/9), Fatal non-media error (illegal request)' I see this again more times after format has run its course, or when trying to label the disk. Interestingly though, if I use 1231 as the total cylinder count, I can format and label fine... but then I have a 186Mb formatted device. I don't want to sacrifce that 24Mb of space... Now I did call Segate, thinking they would know thier own products... foolish me! I was left with the answers that the technicians only knew about MSDOS (yuk tuie!). Some help calling the manufacturer does. Well if anyone has worked with this drive before, or has the correct format.dat information for this device PLEASE LET ME KNOW. I am getting grey patches over this one. Actually any help would do at this point, Sun was stumped on this also. thanks, --mts !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Michael T. Sedwick AT&T Computer Systems merlyn9@ihlpe.att.com Napperville, Il. (708) 979-1026