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From: BHOLMES@cms.cc.wayne.edu (Brian Holmes)
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Subject: Hitachi DK515C formatting problems
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Does anyone have a format.dat entry for an Hitachi DK515C disk drive.  My
current entry looks like this:

disk_type = "Hitachi DK515C" \
   :ctlr = MD21 : fmt_time = 4 : cache = 0x11 : trks_zone = 9\
   : ncyl = 1356 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 1358 : nhead = 14 : nsect = 69 \
   : rpm = 3600 : bpt = 35328 : bps = 512

From the Hitachi manual I'm not sure what cache,trks_zone, or fmt_time
should be set too.  When I try and format the drive I always get the
following message:

Block 3 (0/0/3), Fatal non-media error (illegal request)
failed

Does anyone have an idea what the problem might be?

                        Brian Holmes
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