cspencer@ursa-major.spdcc.com (Cliff Spencer) (08/22/89)
I am having difficulty formatting a Maxtor XT 1140 disk on a Sun 2/120 with an Adaptec ACB4000 SCSI/ST506 adapter.. I type the following to format: # data cylinders 916 # alternate cylinders 2 buffered seek 2 /* I don't know about this... */ cylinder # to start write precomp 918 /* the 1140 doesn't need any */ # heads 15 #sectors/track 32 interleave 4 At the end of the format I get errors on cylinders 916 and 917 of the general form: WRITE FAILED CYL=916 SENSE BYTES 21 6 B7 80 SENSE CLASS 2 CODE 1 adr_val=0 ILLEGAL BLOCK ADDRESS Are my numbers wrong? Has anyone successfully done this? While I'm at it, is there a standard partion layout? Thanks. -cliff