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From: tgoldtho@ccng.waterloo.edu (Thomas A. Goldthorpe)
Subject: Re: hard drive info wanted
Message-ID: <1990Oct8.214307.26670@ccng.waterloo.edu>
Keywords: Hard disk add on's
Organization: University of Waterloo
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Date: Mon, 8 Oct 90 21:43:07 GMT
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In article <52457@brunix.UUCP> rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony) writes:
>
>There is no such thing as a 512/1024 byte sector 'problem'. Neither is
>there a disktab 'problem'. Of course you should reformat your drive
>

The problem is simple.  Under 1.0 the disktab file only supports
1024 byte blocks.  You will find this info right at the top of that
file.  For 512 byte the simple fix is to specify that it is a
1024 byte block and work on the rest of the entries under that
assumption.  Very simple, allows any drive to be entered (seems to
me the last time I saw TheFormatter it only supported one type of
drive, it may now be enhanced, I don't know that part).  I've done
this myself on a machine which now has 2GBytes of disk on it, I
therefore KNOW it works, and all I had to do is modify disktab
and use 'disk' to lay out the file system.  As far as low level
formatting goes, I mentioned what to do weeks ago.  Now do me
a favor and stop arguing over the news.  I post my method because
it works, you post yours for the same reason.  

Tom