Maxtor LXT-200S format.dat
Barry Lustig
barry at ADS.COM
Wed Aug 15 07:32:36 AEST 1990
In article <1990Aug13.010101.4144 at rice.edu> ekrell at ulysses.att.com writes:
>>Note also that
>>on the Sun you only get about 160MB out of the drive rather than 200...
>
>>disk_type = "Maxtor LXT-200S" \
>> : ctlr = MD21 : fmt_time = 2 \
>> : cache = 0x5c : trks_zone = 6 : atrks = 0 : asect = 1 \
>> : ncyl = 1314 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 1320 : nhead = 7 : nsect = 33 \
>> : rpm = 3662 : bpt = 16896
>
>This format.dat entry doesn't use all the sectors the disk has, that's why
>you only get 160MB or so. If you use
>
>disk_type = "Maxtor LXT-200S" \
> : ctlr = MD21 : fmt_time = 5 \
> : trks_zone = 1 : atrks = 0 : asect = 1 \
> : ncyl = 998 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 1314 \
> : nhead = 7 : nsect = 56 \
> : rpm = 3600 : bpt = 33920
>
>You get around 195MB. That's the entry we use. It yields a total of
>391,216 sectors.
Eduardo,
I call your 391,216 and raise you 784 sectors to 391,300. Try this
format.dat entry:
disk_type = "Maxtor LXT-200S" \
: ctlr = MD21 : fmt_time = 5 \
: trks_zone = 1 : atrks = 7 : asect = 1 \
: ncyl = 1300 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 1302 : nhead = 7 : nsect = 43 \
: rpm = 3600 : bpt = 33920
Barry Lustig
Advanced Decision Systems barry at ads.com
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