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From: jim@jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Getting disk drive geometry (SCSI Eval vs. SilverLining)
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Date: 5 Jul 90 14:10:54 GMT
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As far as I know, there are two ways to get the geometry of your disk drive:
use SCSI Evaluator or use SilverLining... However, these applications
return different values for the number of cylinders for all my disks!

For example, for my Quantum 80 (the 3 1/2 version), SCSI Eval returns 834
cylinders, whereas SilverLining returns 837... which is correct??
(SCSI Eval is version 1.00 and 1.03, same answer; SL is 5.24/09)

Any body have any ideas/answers??
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           Jim Jagielski                    NASA/GSFC, Code 711.1
     jim@jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov               Greenbelt, MD 20771

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