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From: jipping@cs.hope.edu (Mike Jipping)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: formatting Maxtor drive on 3/260
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 21 Aug 89 15:08:31 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 102, message 6 of 11

In article <714@brazos.Rice.edu> ggreen@cod.nosc.mil (George W. Green) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 91, message 12 of 16
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>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@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@sj.ate.slb.com