ULTRIX 1.1 Disc Problems solved - Summary

[Sebastian Schmitz]

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Apologies: I really wanted to include some of Chris Torek's
reply here, but our news software is broken a trifle.

In his reply to my note he writes (not verbatim):-

"Assuming one block per track reserved for the forwarding is
unwise: actually the number of blocks reserved can be found in
a device status packet."

This is true. However it did say one block in the controller
manual and I presume that the controller is the one who
generates this packet. I further assume that the controller
will not generate a value in the packet that does not
correspond to its DIP switch settings.
So I left things at "factory preset defaults".

In the light of this information, one has to take a look at the
controller or its status packet to correctly partition the
drives.

Sigh. Life does tend to require a few MB of recursion stack...

Love,
Seb

PS I do not know if one block is the generic default for the
QD32 Emulex controllers. Is it ?
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