formatting Maxtor drive on 3/260

[Mike Jipping]

In article <714 at brazos.Rice.edu> ggreen at cod.nosc.mil (George W. Green) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 91, message 12 of 16
>
>Having problems installing a Maxtor 8760E (SCSI, Emulex MD21), getting no
>coherent information on format parameters from any source.  I keep getting
>write errors when I try to create a new file system with "NEWFS".  HELP!
>
>      George Green, for John Morris
>      ggreen at nosc.mil


If it's any help, here the format parameters that I know of.

# cyl 1626
# alt cyl 2
# heads 15
# sectors/track 53
interleave 1

Make sure your partitions are setup correctly and non overlap.

Russ Poffenberger
Schlumberger Technologies
poffen at sj.ate.slb.com