ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander) (01/15/91)
>In article <091414.29057@timbuk.cray.com> paws@cray.com (Daniel Baehr) writes: > > Do ANY or ALL of the current SCSI controllers >for the AMIGA (any model) support HDs that have >ZBR? I ask because I would like to get the Seagate >ST41520N Elite 1.6 G drive for my 2000 and set up 1.6G Elite?? Life is bad! >parnet between it and my bbs. I know what ZBR means >on the drive end and I would think that the controller >wouldn't care how the drive retrieves/stores the data, >as long as it does it correctly. Right. The only gotcha with ZBR drives is when your SCSI driver software insists on knowing the drive geometry for some random reason. I don't have a ZBR drive, but I when I installed my drive, I lied and said it was a one sided drive 84 megs long. You might have to do a similar trick... just figure the total number of blocks on the drive, and figure a geometry that "comes out right" from that. SCSI was supposed to prevent us from worrying about all this head-cylinder-sector stuff, I dunno why my host adaptor insists on it. > > Daniel Baehr paws@sequoia.cray.com -- | ben@epmooch.UUCP (Ben Mesander) | "Cash is more important than | | ben%servalan.UUCP@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu | your mother." - Al Shugart, | | !chinet!uokmax!servalan!epmooch!ben | CEO, Seagate Technologies |
paws@cray.com (Daniel Baehr) (01/15/91)
Do ANY or ALL of the current SCSI controllers for the AMIGA (any model) support HDs that have ZBR? I ask because I would like to get the Seagate ST41520N Elite 1.6 G drive for my 2000 and set up parnet between it and my bbs. I know what ZBR means on the drive end and I would think that the controller wouldn't care how the drive retrieves/stores the data, as long as it does it correctly. Daniel Baehr paws@sequoia.cray.com