Help with Sun 3/60 + Maxtor XT-8760S
Tom Olin
adiron!tro at uunet.uu.net
Wed Apr 26 12:49:09 AEST 1989
I am trying to format a Maxtor XT-8760S (760MB) drive on a Sun 3/60
(version 3.5 SunOS), without success. My documentation specifies the
following disk geometry:
1632 cylinders
15 data heads
54 sectors/track
I have danced several numbers with diag (a typical example would be 1620
ncyl, 2 acyl, 15 head, 54 sectors, 1 interleave) but format always throws
up on it. If I tell diag that the drive is a Micropolis 1558, it formats
fine. (Of course, I lose a few hundred MB in the process.)
If anybody has successfully formatted one of these drives, I would love to
hear from you.
Tom Olin PAR Technology Corp. (315) 738-0600
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