Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!ames!dftsrv!jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov!jim From: jim@jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux Subject: Disk geometry and /etc/disktab Message-ID: <2698@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> Date: 5 Jul 90 13:58:33 GMT Sender: news@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov Reply-To: jim@jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) Distribution: na Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Lines: 20 The characteristics of a disk drive's geometry needs to be included in A/UX 2.0 /etc/disktab file. There are two ways of getting this information: either from SCSI Evaluator OR LaCie SilverLining. My trouble is that both return DIFFERENT values for the number of cylinders for all my hard disks. Which should I believe? For example, for my Quantum 80 (the newer 3 1/2 inch) SCSI Eval. returns 834 cylnders, whereas SL returns 837 (and 6 heads, 32 sectors/track)... (SL is 5.24/09 and SCSI Eval is both 1.00 and 1.03) ???????? -- ======================================================================= #include =:^) Jim Jagielski NASA/GSFC, Code 711.1 jim@jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov Greenbelt, MD 20771 "Kilimanjaro is a pretty tricky climb. Most of it's up, until you reach the very, very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply."